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where there's a will, there's a way. If something is prohibited or limited, people will always find a way to get around it. When I was in 9th grade, we were issued laptops as a pilot group. Administrators seemed to put up a new firewall every couple of weeks when they found out what types of things were were using it for (xanga.com, chatting online, computer games, etc). No matter how many restrictions came up, students always figured out a new way, and almost saw it as a competition against the system to see how much they could get away with. Same thing in the case of drinking on campus. Putting up restrictions almost makes students want to drink more just to spite their supervisors.

James D. Lester insists that because students tend to over use direct quotations and only about 10% of a final document should be directly quoted, we should try to limit the quotes we keep track of while taking notes.

James D. Lester says that students tend to record too many quotes while taking notes, ending up overusing them in papers. Because final documents should only include 10% of quoted material in the final document, he continues to insist that we try to limit the quotes we record when taking notes.