Article from The Scotsman Published Date: 21 June 2008
By MARTYN McLAUGHLIN
School children are underperforming because they are not good at searching the net, and are not critical enough of what they find. Furthermore, their poor habits in this area are leading to increased incidents of plagiarism.
Does anyone know who William Shakespeare is? Playwright, England’s national poet and the world’s genius, and the Bard of Avon? Yes, of course you do. How about George North? Anyone? Crickets. And yet according to a new academic book being published on February 16th, Shakespeare made good use of the work of George