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Plagiarism is one of biggest concern that most students are trying to avoid but they still practice in their academic. In a popular article, "Hide in the Plain Sight" by Michael Thompson, uses an anecdote to describe his own experience as being one of the students who participated in plagiarism. In another scholarly article, "Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, and How To Find It," by Kristin Gerdy explains the lists of relevant reasons and solutions of plagiarism for the students in the higher educations. Both of these articles addressed the issues of the plagiarism in the higher education through the different perspectives of evidence they presented.
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In this scholarly article, "Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, and How To Find It," Gerdy studies statistics data to prove the trend of increasing plagiarism in the colleges and universities. She states that approximately ninety percent of all college students know that the plagiarism violated the school integrity. However, students still continue to plagiarize their academic work through the usage of technology. Technology provided a shortcut for students to use since they could just copy and paste the information online. The author lists the main factors that contribute to the student plagiarism in higher education are their ambitions of getting a high grade, combined with their procrastination, and school faculty neglect. The solution to solve this issue, as stated by Gerdy, is to use the plagiarism website and [Deleted:s][Deleted:s]software[Deleted:s] to double check the students’ work in order to prevent any of plagiarism in the …show more content…
In "Hide in the Plain Sight," Thompson tends to appeal to the majority population since he is telling a story of his own experience. There are no references for this article and it only shows his own perspectives toward plagiarism. On the other hand, in the "Law Student Plagiarism: Why it Happens, Where it's Found, and How to Find it," Gerdy reveals a more determined, third-person tone to explain the basic logical reasons for the process of plagiarism. She provides many references at the end of each page so it could back her claims more strongly. If we are doing research paper for any of our classes, the best choice is to use the scholarly articles. Unlike popular articles, scholarly articles like Gerdy addresses in her article provides many strong claims that supported by the numerous evidence. Many scholarly article writers like Gerdy are mostly higher level educators such as professors and graduate students. On the other hand, the popular articles are often easy understandable since it often showing up in the newspapers and magazines. For example, Thompson uses the simple and comprehensible words to describe his personal claims that only based on one's perspectives over the whole
Plagiarism is one of biggest concern that most students are trying to avoid but they still practice in their academic. In a popular article, "Hide in the Plain Sight" by Michael Thompson, uses an anecdote to describe his own experience as being one of the students who participated in plagiarism. In another scholarly article, "Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, and How To Find It," by Kristin Gerdy explains the lists of relevant reasons and solutions of plagiarism for the students in the higher educations. Both of these articles addressed the issues of the plagiarism in the higher education through the different perspectives of evidence they presented.
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People speak out the issue of plagiarism …show more content…
In this scholarly article, "Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, and How To Find It," Gerdy studies statistics data to prove the trend of increasing plagiarism in the colleges and universities. She states that approximately ninety percent of all college students know that the plagiarism violated the school integrity. However, students still continue to plagiarize their academic work through the usage of technology. Technology provided a shortcut for students to use since they could just copy and paste the information online. The author lists the main factors that contribute to the student plagiarism in higher education are their ambitions of getting a high grade, combined with their procrastination, and school faculty neglect. The solution to solve this issue, as stated by Gerdy, is to use the plagiarism website and [Deleted:s][Deleted:s]software[Deleted:s] to double check the students’ work in order to prevent any of plagiarism in the …show more content…
In "Hide in the Plain Sight," Thompson tends to appeal to the majority population since he is telling a story of his own experience. There are no references for this article and it only shows his own perspectives toward plagiarism. On the other hand, in the "Law Student Plagiarism: Why it Happens, Where it's Found, and How to Find it," Gerdy reveals a more determined, third-person tone to explain the basic logical reasons for the process of plagiarism. She provides many references at the end of each page so it could back her claims more strongly. If we are doing research paper for any of our classes, the best choice is to use the scholarly articles. Unlike popular articles, scholarly articles like Gerdy addresses in her article provides many strong claims that supported by the numerous evidence. Many scholarly article writers like Gerdy are mostly higher level educators such as professors and graduate students. On the other hand, the popular articles are often easy understandable since it often showing up in the newspapers and magazines. For example, Thompson uses the simple and comprehensible words to describe his personal claims that only based on one's perspectives over the whole