klosterman/gabriel

For my thoughts on the reading from Trip Gabriel I feel that plagiarism is definitely a problem when it comes down to it because it is clearly wrong to take someone else work and try to pass it off as your own. But, not a really huge problem I feel that it does happen more than I know of but I also feel that it just does not happen as much as some people think it does just because so many students now a day’s know what will happen to them if or when they get caught and to take that risk just for a few sentences is not worth it at all in my opinion.  Sarah Wilensky said it best when she said “the main reason it occurs is because students leave high school unprepared for the intellectual rigors of college writing.” I believe that what she said it 100% the truth. I know when I first came out of high school and had a big paper do I was thinking to myself “ o man, I don’t know if I can do this” because I wasn’t sure what I was doing was plagiarism  or not and luckily it was not.

After reading “Ha ha,” he said “Ha ha.” I can understand why Klosterman feels the way he does about laugh tracks that they are old and nothing about them are real. As much as they might sound real it is just a person pressing a button to make the laugh sound and yeah it is real peoples laughter but it might be peoples laughter from 1986 and you can just tell because it sounds old. But most likely when the fake laughter goes off it sometimes helps the views laugh at what just happen or when the view is laughing sometime you do not even hear the laugh track. I can honestly say that I never really thought about a laugh track before I read this article and as I am writing this I am watching “Seinfeld” and everytime the laugh track goes off it is annoying me because I am thinking about of it now and I can totally see why Klosterman does not like laugh tracks!