Journal VII
This article put together by Dànielle DeVoss and Annette C. Rosati explains different aspects of plagiarism. DeVoss is a teacher who teaches a introduction to literature class. After assigning and receiving the first paper she discovers a couple of her students plagiarized their papers. She then went on to talking to the students and even the ones who did not plagiarize were worried they might have. Plagiarism is a large part of today's world with the easy access of the internet. Anyone can easily copy and paste a essay or idea from it. This is however a serious issue since plagiarism in higher education can lead to the failure of a class, academic suspension, or even expulsion in some cases. This article outlines what they think the cause of plagiarism is and how easily it can be done and found.
High School was the plagiarism capital of the world. I had friends who would copy entire pages from the internet; they would not even change it around so it was a little less suspicious. It was crazy, ever essay assignment you could easily expect at least four people would plagiarize. It was the sad truth about high school. I believe plagiarism is mainly done on purpose. The only accidents i see are the ones where they did not cite properly. It is a moral decision to take someone else's work and not credit them at least. But this is the choice some tend to make. Modern technology has made this both easier and harder to accomplish. Teachers can now type in a couple keywords of your essay to see if it holds any connections to other papers in the internet. It is that easy to check. Sadly that knowledge does not even dissuade some from trying to take the easy route.
After reading this I thought that we were taught well how plagiarism can cause a problem and how it can be avoided. At least my teacher taught me well. She would at ften repeat how all the information we gather should be cited because if one source is not listed and we use it, we can get in trouble causing us to get a zero on that specific project. I like the first example the teacher gave in the beginning because it is a true fact. Many of us sometimes wonder if what we do is plagiarism. There is often questions that make you doubt even though you know you are not copying and pasting.
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