What Are The Benefits Of Plagiarism

Thomas Szasz once said “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but never forget.”1 I am certain that the honor court, Dean Adair and professor Briggs have not forgotten the wrongdoings that I have done, however I do ask for your forgiveness. As a Junior, at Hamilton College I began my Biostatistics manuscript assignment with a little concern about plagiarism because at the it seemed to me that any writing I would do in the class would be my original work. It wasn’t until I started writing the introduction and methods sections to the manuscript that I came upon this paper “Just as smart but not as successful: obese students obtain lower school grades, but equivalent test scores to non-obese …show more content…
I have learned from this experience that I should better put forth more time and effort into creating original work. After reading “Plagiarism and How to avoid it” by Professor McInarney, I have come to understand that even paraphrasing one’s work without proper citation is also considered plagiarism. Furthermore, even loosely paraphrasing ideas without citing them is inappropriate and is considered plagiarism. This to me is new knowledge, I should have known this information better more importantly the day I was signing the honor code pledge, if not I should have asked questions for further clarification. This convey that I have shown my inability or unwillingness to do whatever was necessary to protect my academic future from the aforementioned wrongdoings for which I was summoned by the honor court in the first …show more content…
I am very thankful to the honor court to have taken that into account and allowed me to remain in the course and have provided me a second shot, I needed it to prove to the honor court that I really can do things right. Moreover, for offering me a chance move past these offenses and to regain the trust of both Professor Briggs and the honor code court. I especially would like to thank professor Briggs for being fair and considerate in terms of his impartiality and allowing me avenues to peruse if I at any time I felt that his grading’s of my future assignments were not impartial. Please accept my most sincere apology once again for knowingly plagiarizing. What I did was wrong and there is no excuse for it. I also at times lack of experience for not knowing some of the details of the honor code (i.e. paraphrasing ideas without