Argumentative Essay On Coping And Pasting

Technology has gotten so high tech in this past generation that it is affecting the ways students cheat. Students have started to lose their sense of morals and ethics that is causing them not to care that they are cheating. The fact is plagiarism is getting worse and worse because cell phones are an immediate access to find the information they need. Plagiarism is more than just academic, legal, political, and social debate. Saha states that people rely on “copy and paste” when it comes down to plagiarizing and being lazy in this society(2377). The idea of coping and pasting is getting rid of your original ideas and trying to steal someone else's because you believe that theirs are better or just because you don’t care enough to do your own work. These habits that are being started is not just unethical, it is also illegal to plagiarize another author's words. Another issue that supports coping and pasting is the Copyright Act. Plagiarism is more than just cheating in the classroom because you're just lazy or whatever the reason may be. Saha explains that copyright is a “infringement of the intellectual property …show more content…
Ma, Wan, and Lu explain that there are downsides to allowing cell phones in the classroom, but they are also serving for a more opportunities like “peer to peer communication, career seeking, civil interests, social interactivity, etc”(197). There are many positives to allowing technology in the classroom because it has in fact helped students with learning and finding answers fast because of google. Although there are positives, there is a downside of negatives which are cheating, copying and pasting, and plagiarizing that one day students will realize how unethical it is and how it affects their overall morals. Another topic that could be debatable is should you have two separate lives one that includes your social life and one with just your