'The Case Of The Purloined Paper'

Plagiarism is taking others words and ideas verbatim. Understanding another person’s idea and using it to invoke your own unique idea is not plagiarism. In article “The Case of the Purloined Paper” Brigid Schulte argues about how students now a days are not putting enough effort in studying. Students are using internet to cheat on essays such as getting ideas from internet and using them to do their school assignments. I disagree with Schulte because understanding stealing others ideas and claiming them as your own is wrong and should be punished however, understanding others ideas to create your own point of view is not. Internet is full of resources to help people find ideas and get creative some people use it carefully and some people abuse it but I do not believe that is called plagiarism. …show more content…
The work load in our curriculum today has caused student’s to feel pressured with work which in turn has caused to look at assignments given to them as another task to accomplish as opposed to another lesson to be learned. “I wanted them to go through an intellectual exercise. And they just wanted the answers,” Abeshouse says later. “By our standards, it’s cheating. By theirs, it’s efficiency.” (524) Sparknotes.com is a site that is very beneficial for students to further understand materials. Our curriculum needs to be redesigned in a way where students are given enough wok to understand material but still not be