The ideology of college is that students will be challenged through a rigorous academic program along with socially growing along with their peers. In these four years, students might become overwhelmed and pressured into becoming the ideal student. Which in turn can lead to making impulsive decisions, like plagiarism. According to The Brief Wadsworth Handbook, writers define plagiarism as “presenting another person’s ideas or words as if they were your own” (211). There are numerous ways a student can plagiarize; a few examples being cheating, fabrication, and plagiarism itself. Plagiarizing an essay or other school assignment is punishable to the lowest degree such as failing the course or to the highest degree getting expelled from the university.
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The student does not want to look overwhelmed or uncool so she decides for another solution. If she Googles her essay topic goes 100 pages deep the professor would never know that it was not her work. She copies and pastes it into a Word document and turns it in, she does that for the next four papers as well. On Monday morning her first professor calls her after class and says he found out she had plagiarized her essay. This student's impulsive decision cost her, her education at Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green’s Student Handbook declares that “E. Plagiarism- Representing as one’s own in any academic exercise the words or ideas of another including but not limited to quoting or paraphrasing without proper citation” (19). This student could have avoided the overwhelming feeling of her coursework and social life by time management and stress relief …show more content…
When the AP exam came around the student got a two, not receiving credit for the course. Subsequently, the student took English 1010 at her college in the fall. Her high school teacher and college professor gave the same fifteen page research paper assignment. The student thinks that sense she has already written the paper once, that she should not have to do it again. So she copy and pastes her high school paper in the submit box to her college professor thinking that she will never be caught. However, she forgot to change the date on her paper in the upper right hand corner and her citation page dates are wrong as well. Her professor calls her into his office hours on Tuesday saying that he is failing her on the paper. This student is an example of self-plagiarism. Even though that paper was cited correctly and the ideas were hers, she still failed to do the correct assignment. Professors want to see what the student did and how they are progressing. If a student turns in work from a year ago, there is no way of telling how she/he has progressed since then or what they still need help on. Although, if given the same assignment twice some professors will be understanding. The Brief Wadsworth Handbook acknowledges that students might face this problem therefore they suggest this, “if you want to submit a paper for one course that you have already
The student does not want to look overwhelmed or uncool so she decides for another solution. If she Googles her essay topic goes 100 pages deep the professor would never know that it was not her work. She copies and pastes it into a Word document and turns it in, she does that for the next four papers as well. On Monday morning her first professor calls her after class and says he found out she had plagiarized her essay. This student's impulsive decision cost her, her education at Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green’s Student Handbook declares that “E. Plagiarism- Representing as one’s own in any academic exercise the words or ideas of another including but not limited to quoting or paraphrasing without proper citation” (19). This student could have avoided the overwhelming feeling of her coursework and social life by time management and stress relief …show more content…
When the AP exam came around the student got a two, not receiving credit for the course. Subsequently, the student took English 1010 at her college in the fall. Her high school teacher and college professor gave the same fifteen page research paper assignment. The student thinks that sense she has already written the paper once, that she should not have to do it again. So she copy and pastes her high school paper in the submit box to her college professor thinking that she will never be caught. However, she forgot to change the date on her paper in the upper right hand corner and her citation page dates are wrong as well. Her professor calls her into his office hours on Tuesday saying that he is failing her on the paper. This student is an example of self-plagiarism. Even though that paper was cited correctly and the ideas were hers, she still failed to do the correct assignment. Professors want to see what the student did and how they are progressing. If a student turns in work from a year ago, there is no way of telling how she/he has progressed since then or what they still need help on. Although, if given the same assignment twice some professors will be understanding. The Brief Wadsworth Handbook acknowledges that students might face this problem therefore they suggest this, “if you want to submit a paper for one course that you have already