The Power of Media

      Hello there! Welcome to my blog. For this entry, we are assigned to share our advocacy in regards on being an Information Literate. Being an information literate, required a certain skills and quality. One of them is being ethical and responsible in using information. An information literate should have the ability to acknowledge the sources of used information he/she got from other writers. This is where copyright, citation, bibliographies, etc., enters.       Who haven't tried the ctrl c --> ctrl v? Which is basically the copy-paste method on our desktops and computers. This method, if claimed as their own, is considered to be plagiarism. Plagiarism is the stealing information and publicizing it without the knowledge and consent of the author and without a proper acknowledgement to the original writer.  Here in the Philippines, under the R.A 8293 or  the Intellectual Property of the Philippines, the stealing of someone'...