Using sources without properly citing them is considered thievery. Students find it easier to open up a document and copy and paste the work in their own paper. Which raises the question: what is the point of attending a college or university if you can snag a block of text that does not belong to you and call it your work instead of doing the work yourself? Students have become more creative with their method on stealing work, such as duplicating the source but in their own words, changing some words with synonyms. What this does is show that the student spent most of the effort finding ways to plagiarize without leaving any traces rather than using that time to sit down and work through the processes on his or her
Using sources without properly citing them is considered thievery. Students find it easier to open up a document and copy and paste the work in their own paper. Which raises the question: what is the point of attending a college or university if you can snag a block of text that does not belong to you and call it your work instead of doing the work yourself? Students have become more creative with their method on stealing work, such as duplicating the source but in their own words, changing some words with synonyms. What this does is show that the student spent most of the effort finding ways to plagiarize without leaving any traces rather than using that time to sit down and work through the processes on his or her