Why Students Deserve Recognition

One of the main things we take pride in is our hard work, one of the things that deserve recognition is all the effort we put into creating something. What does not deserve recognition is the theft of that time and effort. People do not typically create things just to have them picked off by people who did it to earn an easy grade, or to avoid dealing with failure. Dropping a student out of a university or college is necessary if he or she is caught cheating or plagiarizing because they do not earn the grade by being lazy. We see college as a big step in our lives; by having thousands of dollars spent on an education, it should be expected to see more students coming in to actually learn. College is to be taken seriously; using someone else’s work and keeping it as without proper credit or citation indicates that the student may not be prepared for college. If a student wants to succeed in his or her college career, then he or she is going to have to put down effort, just like everyone else. Plagiarizing at this level can result in harsh punishments for students such as expulsion. With the excuse being “the school does not care about its students” does not make laziness okay in any …show more content…
Using sources without properly citing them is considered thievery. Students find it easier to open up a document and copy and paste the work in their own paper. Which raises the question: what is the point of attending a college or university if you can snag a block of text that does not belong to you and call it your work instead of doing the work yourself? Students have become more creative with their method on stealing work, such as duplicating the source but in their own words, changing some words with synonyms. What this does is show that the student spent most of the effort finding ways to plagiarize without leaving any traces rather than using that time to sit down and work through the processes on his or her