Today the Internet allows many students around the world the opportunity to cheat or plagiarize. The Internet allows the students to copy and paste information in their papers and that is plagiarism. There are many reasons students plagiarize work, reasonings being peer pressure, the nature of "busy work", and the accessbility to the Internet. Even with all these reasons plagiarism is not the way to go and is not worth the trouble.
One reason you should not plagiarize is that the professors have many different types of software to determine if a student has plagiarized. The software the professors are provided with compare suspected papers to those papers on the Internet to see if the content in the papers matchup. Also teachers can use different types of search engines and these seem to be very useful for catching plagiarizors. One way not to plagiarize is to give credit to the person you received the information from. By citing your sources internally and on a bibliography, you take the risk away of getting caught for plagiarism. Another way to avoid plagiarism is to paraphase information. Put it your own words. The fact that you could easily get caught plagiarizing and fail the course should stop you from doing it immediately. Plagiarizing is not worth your time and the trouble, even though you can get your paper done quicker, take the time, research the topic, and write your own paper and you will never have to worry about getting a zero or getting kicked out of college.
Source: Reflect Thoughts Plagiarism p. 38
www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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