"Oh I'm so tired!" "I don't feel like doing any work" "This is too hard" "I think my teacher wants me to fail!" These are the common phrases that you hear from student struggling with dedication issues. Students with minds that have been trained to take the quickest route to success. When we are faced with challenges it is very common for us to want to give up or find the easiest way to fix the problem, and in a world of education, this is where plagiarism begins. Merriam Webster dictionary defines plagiarism as "The act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the person is the act of plagiarizing something." Sarah Reimer dissected the issue of plagiarism precisely in her article, "A Campus Fad That's Being Copied"
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plagiarism involving the Internet, paraphrasing or copying and pasting"(article, rimer Sarah page 196,197) students will quickly resort to using someone else's work if it means saving them mental agony and stress or time. A lot of students go on the Internet and believe that copying a piece or changing around someone's words is acceptable in small quantities or large. However what they don't realize is that taking someone's work without crediting it is actually a crime. Plagiarizing someone to work it's like stealing their long hours, mental stress and accomplishment in the click of a button. "There's a lot of students were growing up with the Internet were convinced that anything you find an online is public knowledge and doesn't need to be cited." For modern day example I would compare this to the iPhone and an average person. Imagine Apple the creator of iPhone release the iPhone 6s Plus and three days later someone saw this material and decided that they'll make something that looks exactly like it and put their name on it. This random person is now claiming the Apple iPhone 6s Plus as their product, when they had no part in creating or inventing it. This is indeed a crime and not acceptable or fear to the inventor of the master …show more content…
For example they believe that it's not a problem if it's not detected by the instructors resources. Rhyme stated in her article that high school student plagiarized because they want to get into college. College students plagiarize because they want to get into competitive graduate school. Plagiarism is becoming OK among those in the education system. It's no big deal because they are using the ideas of the surrounding world to get by. Again I would say that this is convenient, however everything that is convenient is not necessarily morally correct. Going into a candy store and seeing candy having no money in your pockets, you decide to take a bite and enjoy the moment. This action is convenient and great for you however it's inconvenient for the store. Taking something without having permission to take it puts someone else at inconvenience and can cause permanent damage. This is why growing up when we wanted something, we were taught to ask permission. The simple please and thank you. In this case the thank you is citing the source of the individuals permission of that we
plagiarism involving the Internet, paraphrasing or copying and pasting"(article, rimer Sarah page 196,197) students will quickly resort to using someone else's work if it means saving them mental agony and stress or time. A lot of students go on the Internet and believe that copying a piece or changing around someone's words is acceptable in small quantities or large. However what they don't realize is that taking someone's work without crediting it is actually a crime. Plagiarizing someone to work it's like stealing their long hours, mental stress and accomplishment in the click of a button. "There's a lot of students were growing up with the Internet were convinced that anything you find an online is public knowledge and doesn't need to be cited." For modern day example I would compare this to the iPhone and an average person. Imagine Apple the creator of iPhone release the iPhone 6s Plus and three days later someone saw this material and decided that they'll make something that looks exactly like it and put their name on it. This random person is now claiming the Apple iPhone 6s Plus as their product, when they had no part in creating or inventing it. This is indeed a crime and not acceptable or fear to the inventor of the master …show more content…
For example they believe that it's not a problem if it's not detected by the instructors resources. Rhyme stated in her article that high school student plagiarized because they want to get into college. College students plagiarize because they want to get into competitive graduate school. Plagiarism is becoming OK among those in the education system. It's no big deal because they are using the ideas of the surrounding world to get by. Again I would say that this is convenient, however everything that is convenient is not necessarily morally correct. Going into a candy store and seeing candy having no money in your pockets, you decide to take a bite and enjoy the moment. This action is convenient and great for you however it's inconvenient for the store. Taking something without having permission to take it puts someone else at inconvenience and can cause permanent damage. This is why growing up when we wanted something, we were taught to ask permission. The simple please and thank you. In this case the thank you is citing the source of the individuals permission of that we