Plagiarism And Academic Integrity

Plagiarism is one of the biggest problems in the field of education, teachers, professors students, have all been caught stealing other people’s ideas without giving them proper credit fit it. Brain Martin, who wrote the article “Plagiarism by university students: the problem and some proposals” defines plagiarism as. “The use of other people’s word’s or ideas without giving proper credit.” (Martin, 1992, p.1) Going more into detail in Martins article he feels that plagiarism is very labor-intensive and may never be eliminated as shown in this quote. “Elimination of plagiarism by detection and penalties is labor-intensive and ultimately impossible.” (Martin, 1992, p.1) He feels that the way of checking for plagiarism is not working, and will …show more content…
This is shown in one of the policy statements in The Sheridan College academic integrity policy. “A finding that a breach of academic integrity has occurred will lead to the imposition of a range of sanctions as detailed in the supporting Academic Integrity Procedure.” (Sheridan College, 2015, p.1) Simply put Sheridan college will punish any one caught plagiarizing for one reason or another, using a variety of different methods such as suspension, a mark of zero on the assignment or test, or in serious cases even being kicked out of the program. This does not mean that in his article Martin feels that punishment is not necessary for individuals who plagiarize, he still feels that students need to be punished when they are caught, but the circumstances around it are also important, as well as if the individual such as a student did not know how to properly reference or site information he/she should be taught how to do so