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CHILD GUIDANCE Many Children's Poems Mistakenly Submitted By GARRY C. MYERS, PhD | mous," acknowledging that the A number of the children's|author's name is unknown. To magazines print short verse) which children send in, Having) been editor of one of these! magazines for a number of * years, I have read a_ great many poems sent in by children as their own which were written by others. As required by most chil- dren's publications, a statement by a parent or teacher that it is the child's creation has ac- companied the submission. Among the authors most often plagiarized by children is Rob- ert Louis Stevenson. The single poem of his sent'us most often is The Friendly Cow, and the statement of assurance is most frequently by a teacher. As several of our editors re as we check against the leading anthologies of children's verse, we catch most of the plagiar- isms. But once in a long while we don't catch it and publish | one of them, only to be apprised | of the error by one or many children who later discover the plagiarism and wonder why we have tried to deceive them Some years ago the editor of another child's magazine said she was about to discontinue printing any poems sent in by| children "as #0 many are plagiarized," Other editors have been faced with this problem. It's. doubtful if any editor can catch all plagiarisms, not hav- ing. read all the verses which have ever been published, MEMORY FACTOR Often the teacher or parent may have seen the child write it. He could have written it from memory, Indeed, it is conceiva- ble that an occasional child has) heard or read a poem he liked and remembered it so well that he actually supposed it was his owf, So we need to be charita- bleewith children, Rightly we read nursery rhymes to little children as young as two, three or five. Nearly all appear in books! witBout the name of the original author or publisher attached. Nobody knows: who first wrote | or published them. But as soon as we begin to read verse whose author is at the head or bottom of it, let us call the name of, this author to the child's atten- | tion. Sometimes the poem has| attached to it the word "anony- ASPARAGUS AND ONIONS 1 "cup sliced green onions 3 'eups asparagus, cut in l-inch pieces 9 "eups well-seasoned, med- 4 4 jum cream sauce | 'tablespoons grated Cheddar) " cheese tablespoons erumbs Cook asparagus and green onigns together in boiling, salt-| ed water. Place in buttered cas-| serole and pour cream sauce) ovey all. Cover with cheese and crumbs combined, Bake at 350 dry bread' SERVES FOUR Home economists at Macdon- al Institute University of Guelph say that one pound of fresh esneragus is required for every four servings. Bright green stalks with firm, compact 'tips are the best buy WANTED IT FOR LOOKS DONCASTER, England (CP) The wedding party. drove up to a Yorkshire church, posed for photographs with the guests, and drove away again. Rev James Kennedy of St. James' Church said he had no idea who they were. He guessed they. had been married at a registry of ~2 =~ shall na - dia tees WE ates sucess Cost thes child's attention as we read it to him or as he reads it him- self, We should observe these mat- ters with selections of prose. Unfortunately many primary school readers have prose, though rarely verse, whose au- \thor's name is omitted. There-! fore, the child may not get practice in his early years at connecting what he reads with jthe original author and pub- lisher. - No doubt all of us use, more- over, whole sentences and phrases we have read etse- where, In this way we enrich our verbal and written expres- THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, Mey 25, 1966 19 ROSENTHAL you sion, As children grow older land write prose of their own, we rightly encourage them to |imitate expressions of great. au-| thors, But we could and should \try to induce them, when using several whole sentences in se- quence to put quotation marks around them, Children in the higher grades when writing special papers go fo the encyclopedia or owes books for source material and often will copy out whole para- graphs as their own. 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