I agree with this. To become truly informed about a subject you have to see it from all sides. It's like an old Buddhist story I read where a king brought a bunch of blind men and gave them an elephant. They went around feeling the elephant and each man claimed it was a different type of beast. They all were so convinced they were right that they started fighting among themselves. But the fact was that they were all wrong. But once they banned together with their thoughts and ideas they were able to fully piece together what it was they were feeling.

I want to know more about how you go about this. I have experienced this many times in books like “Youth in Revolt '' which made me laugh and feel happy. While other books like “IT“ made me feel fear through descriptive language and an intriguing story. But when I'm writing something I notice that I tend to go numb and I find it hard to convey my feelings. I'm not sure if it's me trying to use big words to make myself smarter or if I'm just not good at sharing my feelings but I would like to know how to do this. I enjoy books much more when they make me feel a certain way (good or bad).

The author confirmed my understanding because from what I see ethos is character. When writing you need to show that you care about what you’re writing and that you are well informed in the area of your writing. And by plagiarizing you distinctly show that you don't care about or even actively disrespect the field of interest you are writing about. As well as the fact that you were so incompetent in the field of interest that you had to turn to stealing others' work.

It is clearly about more than already knowing everything. you have to be able to listen and want to learn more.

I thought that a B was the acceptable grade and C was less than good but still passable. But according to this a B is above average and C is acceptable.

You are not aloud to submit something that you have already subbmited in another class. They clearly take plagiarism very seriously. You can be given a Zero on your assignments and Through further review you can even fail your class.