You might like to address the question of whether students who plagiarize should be punished, whether students who plagiarize are aware of what they are doing or any other important idea. Reference the articles using quotation and paraphrase to respect your sources!
Write about 200 to 300 words in paragraphs. It is not necessary to write in full essay form. Complete your writing by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday so that others may read your opinions before next week's class.
Recent News: Liberals Accuse Harper of Plagiarizing 2003 Speech on Iraq (Sept. 30, CBC.ca)
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Who would have thought “Ian McEwan, whose best-selling novel “Atonement” has recently been discovered to [contain] passages from a World War II memoir by Lucilla Andrews,” a plagiarist? Not me, at least, but in an article published in the New York Times in January of 2007, Charles McGrath goes on to say, “there is sometimes a moral component to plagiarism — as when a student cheats by turning in a term paper not his own.” It is different he argues, in the world of literature, where “it more often seems like an aesthetic offense, a crime against taste.” So, for some, plagiary is allowed. It turns out that McEwan only borrowed a couple of hundred words. A minor offense but I would argue he should have acknowledged his borrowings. It would have been more gracious of him!
Perhaps less excusable is the plagiary in Sara Rimer’s article that McCabe describes as a result of the “intense competition to get into graduate school.” We like to imagine that the world is a level playing field, with every person given an equal chance. But some are smarter than others and some are willing to go further than others doing whatever it takes to get ahead. While I looked for articles on Google News I came across instructions from a student on how to look for habits in a teacher in order to better cheat on an in-class exam. That certainly gave me pause!
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Articles quoted: “A Campus Fad That's Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer and “Plagiarism: Everybody Into the Pool” by Charles McGrath both from the New York Times.
In all ages, plagiarism is not aboveboard as most people know. However, in this Internet era, it seems no longer a big due. On the Internet, there are quite easy ways to copy something belonging to others, and many students “considered such behavior trivial or not cheating at all”, in Sara Rimer‘s article Professor McCabe said so. This fact is a serious issue in nowadays society.
First of all, it’s not fair for the people whose work is plagiarized. They spend lots of time and exert their utmost effort to gain the result that perhaps will be plagiarized easily. “The average teenager uses the phrase ‘It’s not fair’ 8.6 times a day”, but some complainers are doing unfair things to other ones. On the other hand, for the takers, it is not constructive. Being used to search information, copy and then make up them without any themselves’ creativity, as time passes, they just become some copy machines and computer software which only can manage data. At last, plagiary’s bad influence for our society is noticeable. In the same article, one of students’ comments that were solicited about cheating wrote: “This isn’t a college problem. It’s a problem of the entire country!” “Everyone cheats, it’s not all that important.” A high school student said to Professor McCabe in it. These students will go into all kinds of vocations after graduation and become tomorrow’s politicians, business leaders, scientists, artists and so on. By the knowledge that is gained through such a way, they would design a society full of duplicates, similarities and cheat.
Being honest “is a very big deal to us”, no matter how advanced and convenient our world become. We can search data on Internet, or look for inspiration from other people’s work, but remember, to cite the source.
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Article quoted: “A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer from the New York Times, “Dumbing Our Kids” by Charles Sykes from Spa for Mind
Plagiarism is as same as stealing. In other words, people who plagiarise feel very shameful when they get realised by others. It is a serious problem because some persons keep practising that bad activity without controlling themselves. They just prefer to cheat in all its kinds rather than studying by themselves or depending on their own information. Susan Douglas refers in her article: “One study in 2005 found that 70 percent of undergraduates said they had cheated. And why not?”
That is one of the reasons that all educational institutions such as schools, colleges, and universities try all their bests to keep students out of that wrong behaviour. They try to explain what is the meaning of plagiarism and how it is dangerous ,also they encourage students to do their own works. In Sara Rimer’s article, McCabe supports the opinion of Kathleen Deignan, Princeton’s dean of undergraduate students, when says: “We need to pay more attention as students join our communities to explanig why this is such a core value -being honest in your academic work and why if you cheat that is a very big deal to us.”
According to my opinion, I think that students should not be punished if they ignore plagiarism. First, they should be informed and warned by teacher, as our teacher (Brad) explained everything to us about plagiarism. Then, if students cheat, they must be punished. However, warning students is very important because many of them either ignore plagiarism, or they give excuses to themselves for practising internet cheating. As McCabe said in Sara Rimer’s article: “There are a lot of students who are growing up with the internet who are convinced that anything you find on the internet is public knowledge and doesn’t need to be cited.”
So, guiding students by educators is the best way to control or at least reduce plagiarism. “Educators are supposed to teach our students that intellectual theft is the worst crime they can commit in the academy, yet these same students see all sorts of people, from Doris Kearns Goodwin to Ann Coulter, profiting from it.” said Susan Douglas.
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Article quoted : “A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism”
by Sara Rimer , “Catch Your Own Clue: plagiarists” by Susan J. Douglas.
Ally and Eman: Thanks for making your opinions clear to us (and for being the first posters). One of my English 12 students noted that some of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech were plagiarized and now one of our Prime Minister's speeches has been caught in the same way. It's hard to preach honesty when such important people plagiarize!
Do students who practice plagiarisms know that they are harming their futures and hurting others? I don’t think they know. “I don’t care about others’ feelings, all I need is to get a good grade and impress my parents,” I heard a student said. If she wants to impress only her parents, what will happen if she finishes high school and wants to enter college? She probably would do the same to enter college .In addition, would she still be cheating even if she finishes college and start her career. Now that’s where the plagiarists get hurt because if they apply for job, they’ll be disqualified for it.
What she said is an indication that her reason for cheating is simply because her parents get upset when she gets a low grade.In my opinion, one reason that cause students to cheat is their parents don’t appreciate and encourage their hard works; rather, they would say, “you’re doing nothing in school. How could you get a C in science?” Moreover, children who like to make their parents happy would cheat and get an A. A solution to this problem is for parents to appreciate their children’s effort and not put pressure on them about getting higher marks.
“I get desperate at the last moment,” a student wrote. Procrastinating is another reason that motivate student to cheat, in my opinion. They procrastinate and when they run out of time, they either copy their friend’s homework or search the Internet for similar topic. In Sara Rimer’s article, a student wrote, “One time I downloaded a program off the Internet for my class.”
“Taking others ideas is not a bad thing, but not acknowledging the source is the plagiarism part,” said my teacher, Brad, “it’d be more respectable if you quote it."
Articles quoted “A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer from The New York Times, and “10 Reasons Students give For Plagiarism” from my research
Thanks Brad (teacher) and my two classmates, Ally and Eman for posting your article earlier. Reading them has just made it easier for me to understand what I was supposed to do.
What a wonderful decision, “Forty-four SFU students who committed plagiarism are now receiving punishment almost one year after being caught.”Stephen Thomson said.
In my prospect, punishing and suspending are the best way to encourage honesty and confidence among students and to avoid Internet plagiarism. Moreover, instructors should have enough knowledge about each one of their students in order to not disappoint an honorable person and to lessen the number of crimes. I believe copy another person written work without citing, and using Internet plagiarizing is unforgivable.
As Stephen said, “Students from a business and economics class held last fall have been suspended for up to four semesters on the recommendation of the University Board on Student Discipline. Currently, five students are appealing the decision to the senate committee on disciplinary appeals.”
Plagiarizers cause misjudgment as they promote well without being caught. From my own experience, sometimes being rude is the only way to defense your honesty and your hard work. Besides all my wonderful memories from PALC, one thing always bothers me and I still can’t forgive myself for being nice to a plagiarizer at my English nine final exams. I also blame my instructor for her misjudgment, and not knowing her two students by end of a semester. Instate of investigating the matter, she just ignored it by writing in our papers why the two papers are the same, and she gave a good mark to a duplicitous.
According to Sara Rimer’s article, “Twenty percent of the faculty members said they use their computer, such as the turnitin.com detects student’s plagiarism.” To make education field friendly, and to catch dependable, such rules and policies should be taken.
Article quoted:”A campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism by Sara Rimer and “Campus: Cheater punished” by Stephen Thomson SFU staff writer
“If you Google ‘the role of the nurse in Romeo and Juliet’ you will be offered over 800 possible sites, a number of which contain some reasonable interpretations of her part in the lovers' tragedy.” said by Vicky Tuck in her recent article about internet plagiarism. Nowadays, student is so easy to find many good resource for their works, and it is certainly difficult for them to not to plagiarize because it will obviously save their time and improve their grade. The result of survey is “thirty-eight percent of the undergraduate students surveyed said that in the last year they had engaged in one or more instance of ‘cut-and-paste’ plagiarism involving the internet.” So internet plagiarism is now a serious social issue.
How to eliminate this phenomenon? First, we should let the students know that copying from internet is cheating because many students don’t realize it. “Almost half the students said they considered such behavior trivial or not cheating at all.” We must change the new generation’s mind about internet plagiarism so that they will understand that they will finally suffer from it. On the other hand, we may need to make some change on education system about how to evaluate students’ ability. “But today it is so much easier to plagiarise, and schools and examination boards are going to have to get smarter when setting titles so that students have to do some thinking of their own.” Sometimes forbid people not to do something is not the best way to solve problem.
Article quoted: “A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer from the New York Times, “Time for a rethink on internet plagiarism?” by Vicky Tuck from http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/jun/04/schools.gcses
The increase of plagiarism is more on the character issue. Does it mean parents have failed to inculcate honesty to their kids? Do they? That taking of anything that is not yours is stealing. The same thing with copying ideas in the internet is intellectual theft. As emphasized here,” We need to pay attention as students join our communities to explaining why is this such a core value- being honest in your academic work and why if you cheat that is a very big deal to us” said Kathleen Deignan, Princeton’s Dean of undergraduate students. Yes it is a core value! Then, why students are cheating? Are they lacking of self-confidence and self-esteem? This is maybe not true. One of the students from the survey wrote:” This isn’t a college problem. It’s a problem of the entire country”. Is that meaning a cry for help- that our values are deteriorating? “Forty four SFU who committed plagiarism are now receiving punishment almost one year after being caught”. (By Stephen Thompson who is staff writer). Is there a positive transformation on the person being punished? “The hope is that this situation will give students the message that there is zero tolerance for academic dishonesty, but also that “they will take some support from this strong action because it must be extremely frustrating for those honest students to see a small number of fellow students taking an unfair academic advantage,” Roger Blackman, SFU acting Dean of Arts.
To me, despite of the punishment I’ve got when I was a kid, I am thankful. Now, I am a parent who valued honesty I will teach honesty to my kids surely. Lets us join together to avoid plagiarism? Will you be part of it?
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Quoted article: A Campus Fad That’ Being Copied
Internet Plagiarism by Sarah Rimer from New York Times and
Campus: Cheaters punished by Stephen Thopmson, Staff Writer
(October 28, 2002 search 9 Vol. 112)
Recently, I read an article titled “A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism”, by Sara Rimer, and another article titled:”Internet plagiarism among college students”, written by Scanlon, Patrick M, Neumann, David R, in Journal of College Student Development, May/Jun 2002. Two articles have something similar which are internet plagiarism and other kinds of cheating are rising. According to Sara Rimer, 38% of students surveyed “had engaged in one or more instance of cut-and-post plagiarism involving internet.” “Almost half the students said they considered such behavior trivial or not cheating at all.” According to Scanlon, Patrick M, Neumann, David R, “A substantial minority of students reported they use the Internet to copy and paste text into their papers without citation.”
In my opinion, internet plagiarism and other kinds of cheating are very wrong, but the most terrible thing is that students don’t consider they are wrong. Any kinds of cheating are morally wrong, so as in Sara Rimer’s article, Kathleen Deignan said, ”We need to pay more attention as .....why this is such a core value.” Teachers’ and schools’ responsibilities are not only to teach students knowledge but also to teach students what is right and what is wrong. Besides, schools’ authorities should make some serious rules and regulations for punishing cheating. Students’ honest in tests and assignment are the fundamental elements to make them being creative and good persons in the future.
Articles quoted: “A Campus Fad That's Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer， from the New York Times and “Internet plagiarism among college students”, by Scanlon, Patrick M, Neumann, David R, in Journal of College Student Development, May/Jun 2002.
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The Internet has changed the ways people communicate, work, shop and learn. However, it has also brought many troubles. Internet plagiarism is one of them. With the abroad employment of the internet, this problem is more conspicuous. Why? Because it is easy. People can get information they want very easy. For example, if you input plagiarism as a keyword in Google, you can find tons of articles related to this topic. Too many to read them all. You just need “cut-and-paste”, the article is finished without a little difficulty.
“The Internet plagiarism is rising among students.” McCabe said in his survey. More and more students download materials off the internet for their programs. It is a serious problem so that it is worth being concerned about, but students don’t think so. “This isn’t a college problem. It is a problem of the entire country!” One of the students from the survey wrote. It makes me think of an interview of Dion. “ I have a prime minister who commits plagiarism.” He told reporters. I don’t know if the Prime Minister did it or not, but I am quite sure plagiarism is a big problem indeed, from students to leaders or politicians.
For a student, I am more interested in how to avoid plagiarism. “There are two strategies. One is that put in quotations everything that comes directly from the text. Another is that paraphrase, but be sure you are not just arranging or replacing a few words.” A writing tutorial service offered. I preferred the second one. If using too many quotations, what’s left for yourself?
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Articles quoted: “A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer and “Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It “ by writing tutorial services, Indiana University, Bloomington ,IN.
September 30, 2008
Internet Plagiarism
According to the news from the academic sources, it seems all concerned academic institutes are taking guard against increasing Internet plagiarism among students. One of the great problems for educators is the difficulty of keep tracking the thousands of the websites and the web pages which are being used by students daily. There are even webs that are selling complete projects and assignments to students. If a student pays more for a specific article, that assignment completely will be disappeared!
In plagiarisn.org website, I read that Internet plagiarism become a booming industry! Isn’t it totally weird? I didn’t even know that there are many kind of plagiarism. I learned it there.
Therefore, I think one of the most important items that can help to prevent plagiarism in any kind is information. I read three different articles about plagiarism, and all of them were agree about that. Maybe some students, like me, even don’t know about different kind of plagiarism, and then, naturally don’t know that they are plagiarising.
Mary Hricko said that going through policy of each institute about plagiarism can help preventing it. Also, there are some educational techniques which are helping to active education. One of them is giving assignments with specific resources. All instructors and library staffs have been educated about the resources. All students have to give photocopy and identify their resources. The other way is using some new software programs by instructors to help them find plagiarism in assignments. When the students are totally watchable and controlled, the Internet plagiarism is decreasing.
I think for the first time student has to be advised about his/her mistake, but for the second time is not acceptable. They have to know this is some kind of stealing and is not “negotiable”.
Resources:
1- Plagiarism.org, website (www.plagiarism.org)
2- Internet Plagiarism Strategies to Deter Academic Misconduct, by Mary Hricko, Library Director (http://frank.mtsu.edu/~itconf/proceed98/mhricko.html)
3- A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism, by Sara Rimer ( 2005 The New York Times Company)
“Plagiarism is to copy verbatim the work of another without proper acknowledgement, to closely paraphrase the work of another by simply changing a few words or altering the order of presentation without acknowledgement, to quote phrases from another’s work without proper acknowledgement, to deliberately or inadvertently present another's concept as your own.” Wow, to paraphrase sentence or “borrow” other’s concept is plagiarism. Maybe I should change that word “borrow” into “steal”.
How can teacher know if I plagiarize? “Turnitin is a service of iParadigms LLC, the leader in textual intellectual property protection and a pioneer of web-based services for collaborative, online educational support. The company is at the forefront of using technology to increase awareness of best practices in teaching and learning as it relates to the use of other people's textual content. Turnitin is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty and thousands of institutions in more than 100 countries.” With the help of technology we can plagiarism and anti plagiarism, a double edge sword. It is somehow similar to virus and anti virus. That is why people are getting busier and busier nowadays.
“Sometimes, students and parents do not understand why it is wrong to “borrow” sections of text for a paper without providing attribution.”
“Plagiarism is the most serious of academic crime; it is met with severe punishment.” Most schools have rules against plagiarism “In Somerset Independent School, students will not receive credit for an assignment which has been plagiarized. Students and parents should take note that plagiarism may cause a student to be unable to graduate.”
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article quoted
Plariarism and how to avoid it – a good practice guide for
students” from Glyndŵr University in UK
Turnitin Moves Beyond Plagiarism Protection With WriteCycle Digital Workflow Solution, Sep 22 05:00 AM US/Eastern PR Newswire.
A Campus Fad That is being copies: internet Plagiarism by Sara Rimer New York Times
August 12, 2008 Somerset high school, KY
Internet Plagiarism
You can get any sources you want through the Internet easier than ever before, but don’t plagiarize! “Internet plagiarism is rising among students.” According to Donald L. McCabe, a management professor at Rutgers University where organized this year’s study on plagiarism in college. People get start to plagiarize is the most dangerous thing. They always have excuses to cheat, “’ Because of the intense competition to get into graduate school, and land the top jobs,’ professor McCabe said, ‘ It never stops.’” Everyone should aware of how serious problem plagiarism is. Being dishonest is a moral problem. If everyone cheats, who can we trust? When people cheat in schools and college, they do not learn well, they will not do well in their jobs. It is dangerous for entire society. Except let everyone know what the onsequences are , we should know how to distinguish. “The web has made it much easier to catch plagiarists. Such as a website called Turnitin.com, is a popular service, offers a simple method that allows both teachers and students to submit papers to electronic scrutiny. The service compares the paper against millions of websites and the database. “ “ Dr. Steven Hardinger, a chemistry Lecturer at the Vniversity of California at Los Angeles said that he had students submit their own papers to Turnitin.com, with the results sent to him. He said that we really hate to see plagiarists and hate to punish them, but we want them to know we’re watching.” To sum up, stealing ideas and works from others is not acceptable. Everyone should aware that we have responsibilities to be honest and keep impartial competition.
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Articles quoted: “ A Campus Fad That’s Being Copied: Internet Plagiarism” by Sara Rimer, from The New York Times and “ Lessons in Internet Plagiarism” by Katie Hafner from The New York Times
Plagiarism
There are big difference between creative writing and pragiarism. Creative writing takes a lot of effort but plagiarism is very easy. Also it is difficult to distinguish creative writing and plagiarism. Therefore everyone has temptation of plagiarism.
Donald L. McCabe, a management professor at Rutgers University have surveyed on plagiarism to the 18,000 student, 2600 faculty members and 650 teaching assistants in 23 college.
Result of the survey shows 38% of the undergraduate student admit cut and paste plagiarism, paraphrasing or copying and half of them considered such behavior trivial or not cheating at all. Only 10% of students had acknowledged cheating.
Professor McCabe said to the reporter ”There are a lot of students who are growing up with the internet convinced that anything you find on the internet is public knowledge and doesn’t need to be cited”. 40% of student acknowledged plagiarizing written source in the last year. Half of the student considered trivial.
Now a days there are many effort against plagiarism by both faculty members and students in the college. Twenty percent of the faculty members use their computer such as turnitin.com site, to help detect student plagiarism.
If you need some passage of others in your writing then you should using quotation or marks representing the sourse in the bottom page or reference at the end of chapter.
Kenny
Plagiarism
When the Internet occur to human society , most of people though that it would be always helpful to human,however, nowdays, many problems exist in our society because of the Internet. Especially , to the student who is going to college. They are doing plagiarism without Internet when the Internet is not exist in the world. However, after theInternet comes into the world , students could doing plagiarism as much as easier then before the Internet ages. One of news from the new York Times said , lots of students are doing plagiarism in the university of Texas. Students threw a draft of the topic onto the Internet for feedback , parts of the code appeared to have been lifted word frome Brigham Young University. And this happning was emblematic of wider pattern in recent years. the center of the academic Integrity said. "It doesn't feel like what would be in a book. You Google it and here it comes." However a conservative commentator dissagreed about these problems. They said "Internet is not the reason to the plagiarism and cheating has became so woefully, prevalent in our school." How can we clear up to these dissimilar opinions?
Warner Todd Huston who wrote at new Busters said "For that we must look to our society and the lake of attention of our educators." I agree about it , because we made Internet and we made these problems. we must convert the plagiarism problems to see our society. And also people have to stop doing plagirism even if someone gives a perfect drafts , it is necessary to have your own thinking and get a independent form from your brain. Internet has been deepen to the ploblems of plagiarism turely , however, surely , the internet is not be able to accept these problem. It has to our problem and we have to fix it to be sure.
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Articles quoted: "Fighting College Plagiarism With Plagiarism?" by
Mike Nizza from New York Times.
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sorry Mr.Brad I thought it was due before tuesday. Sorry about that I comment this draft today.
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