My views on using the internet during the exam!

In class we discussed whether we should be able to use the internet at our exam, or not. Because of that, we were told to write about which sites we were going to use and if internet access will help us and why.

I personally think that internet will help us during the exam, but it will also make things harder for us.  It will be easier to write a trustworthy text or article because you can relate your facts to your sources with a little foot note at the end of the sentence or quote. And if we get an assignment which involves topics we don't know anything about the internet will help us in the right direction and make our text better, but the thing with internet and the sources on the internet is that they can be written by anyone.

Not only can the sources on internet be written by any person in the world, but also are todays youths in Norway familiar with the word plagiarism. It is extremely easy to read an article on the internet and find 3 or 4 good sentences in an article and click copy - paste. That's the biggest danger with internet use, the text could be compound by different sentences written by other people, and is therefore not actually the individuals own text.

When it comes to which sites we can trust or not I think that newspaper- and encyclopedia sites are the most trustworthy. In Norway we have this site called www.snl.no which is the "book-encyclopedia", but just on the internet, and is therefore one of the most secure source you can use. 

If we are aloud to use the internet I will be very careful with which sites and pages I use to seek information, and I also recommend other students to be careful. Its not clever to use all your exam time researching, so its important to prepare some sites that are trustworthy and maybe make a little summary of which sites that can be used for different themes you may have on your exam.

Good luck!