As I engage this unit’s Read and Attend assignments, I find that my understanding of plagiarism is not as fully developed as I had previously thought. Our Unit 3 Attend assignment shares that “in a general sense plagiarism may be caused by carelessness” and these circumstances frequently precipitate the lack of care required while writing (Bethel University, 2014, p. 11). The academic integrity tutorial provided additional information which I found valuable as well. Common themes within each unit assignment provide strands of continuity, while assisting with a more comprehensive understanding. It is my opinion, the type of plagiarism that is hardest for me to avoid is “plagiaphrasing”, also known as “lazy paraphrasing” (Bethel University, 2014, p. 12).
It's two o'clock in the morning, and a student sits in a dark, quiet bedroom, his face illuminated only by the glow of his laptop. The silence is punctuated by the rhythmic tapping of keys as he struggles through composing the fifth page of the twenty that are required for his research paper due tomorrow morning, only a few short hours away. The student begins the slow, grueling process of paraphrasing and citing his source, when suddenly, a sense of overwhelming fatigue falls over him. Giving up, he copies and pastes the information into his own document, scrambling it a bit before printing it out and shoving it in his binder. A situation like the one this student encountered is not uncommon, but the choice to plagiarize has innumerable consequences
Mari Pearlman’s article Cheating in School Reflects Basic Confusion in Society, states “By emphasizing the wrong things in a student testing, we end up inviting a culture of compromise.” Pearlman suggests that society has grown to compromise cheating, meaning it is okay with certain scenarios but not in others. Mari Pearlman also asserts that parents cheat with taxes, and cheat at their work but want teachers to go hard on cheating teens in a classroom. Teens and children learn from those they surround themselves with, and not just their peers. Pearlman points out that students who tend to get caught cheating live in a household where parents bend the rules a little.
The initial draft about Jaschik’s article “Winning Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism,” lacks evidence related to the author’s analysis and shows imprecise and vague information about the author’s audience and purpose. It does not indicate the year in which the article was published, which is essential to give the reader a perception of how recent the article is. The initial draft starts with a brief and vague analysis of the article’s context, what makes it seems more like a summary than an actual analysis. The topic sentence does not introduce which rhetorical choices are being analyzed and what the author wants to accomplish implementing those. On the first paragraph, the writer states “Jaschik employs illustrations in order to support his purpose of
Teresa Fishman speaks about how the generation of kids who are growing up having the access to free information, that anyone can claim plagiarism lines
In this article, author Jodi Wilogren discusses how plagiarism at a school affected an entire community. In December of 2002, a teacher at Piper High School found a shocking statistic: 28 out of 118 sophomores have plagiarized on their biology project, which involved collecting leaves and researching them. A website called turnitin.com detected that one in four papers included sections copied off the internet. The teacher, Mrs. Pelton, gave the students zeroes on their project and forced them to meet with the school board to discuss their behavior. Mrs. Pelton had previously set rules and expectations for the class which stated that plagiarism would result in failure of the assignment and a note to the parents.
Plagiarism is defined as the act of representing the work of someone else as your own (AERA, 2011; APA, 2010; APA, 2012; Cozby & Bates, 2012; Creswell, 2014). According to Fisher & Partin (2014), there are two forms of plagiarism, which are deliberate and accidental. Deliberate plagiarism is the intentional attempt to pass off the work of someone else as your own, and accidental plagiarism is unknowingly using the work of someone else without proper citation and referencing (Fisher & Partin, 2014). Commonly, plagiarism is thought of as submitting someone else’s work for an essay or school report and can include submitting the entire artifact as your own, or using a small portion of the work, such as paragraph or sentence without properly citing the original author (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Submitting someone else’s work in place of completing the work themselves is an ethical dilemma most students understand; however, oftentimes, students do not understand that it is equally important to cite the ideas of others even when expressed in their own words.
In Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty, Rebecca Howard used words like “robbed” and “kidnapped” to describe plagiarism. However, most emphasis had been put on the fact that originality is key to recognition and true authorship where she says “writers who want recognition must assert priority; to assert priority is to assert originality; and to assert originality engenders a fear of being robbed” (Howard 791). In UNCW’s policy, plagiarism is defined as “the copying of language, phrasing, structure, or specific ideas of another and presenting any of these as one’s own work, including information found on the Internet” (“Section I” 12). This definition is very different from Rebecca’s policy because it has included sources from the internet. Rebecca shows us that this issue of plagiarism only started recently because of technological advancements which brought about the big debate about authorship (Howard).
Students at a college have rights and they are responsible for following college’s policies. Plagiarism—using another’s idea or work and pretending that it is their own without credits used by Currie and Pennycook might be one of the policies which colleges in North America are cared about in order to protect author’s copyright (as cited in Nall & Gherwash, Aug 12, 2013). Currie and Pennycook (Aug 12, 2013) also demonstrated that ESL(English Second Language) students uninformed of plagiarism which it could be an obvious punishment such as suspension and expulsion. Hence, some colleges which international students attend distribute their own policy involved in plagiarism to help them avoid plagiarizing. For instance, Seneca and George Brown colleges have their own policies involved in plagiarism.
Differences of punishment for plagiarism p.1 Different Punishment of Plagiarism in Fanshaw College and Centennial College Park kyuyong (Paul) Many universities or college students overlooked the plagiarism, also ESL students may not know of or that they can be punished for, is an offense in North American universities or college. It is dishonest writing in academic to use another’s languages or thoughts as your own. (Nall & Gherwash, Aug 12, 2013. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ ). For example, a student combines some copied sources from other author’s, while changing a few words and orders without quotation and citation, is called “Patchworking” which a term was introduced by Rebecca Moore Howard (as cited in Aug 12, 2013).
but I just didn’t think my teacher would notice. So yes I can say I knew what plagiarism was but back then in elementary school we just used a different term for it; cheating. I define plagiarism as copying someone else’s work word to word and not giving then any credit. I believe that if I mention that the information that I was using is not my own work or idea then I shouldn’t be accused of plagiarism. With all said I who used to be an ESL student believe that the American River College plagiarism policy does not need any changing because even if someone doesn’t know what plagiarism is they still know what cheating and lying is.
In chapter 15d Lunsford states, “whether it is intentional or not, plagiarizing can have a serious consequence. Students who plagiarize may fail or be expelled.” After reading chapter 15 and OWL slides I have learned that some students who plagiarize do not do it intentionally, meaning they used incorrect paraphrasing or do not create a work cited page to notify the reader or teacher on where the information included in their work is from. For instance, a student can type an essay and not be aware they are plagiarizing, being that they never learned how to properly borrow information from there source or they use misquoted information into their own words causing them to plagiarize. For example, inside the OWL slides it states, “it is not always clear what “common knowledge” is.
According to Alison Chen, “[Shakespeare] is widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist”. William Shakespeare created an immense amount of works such as plays and sonnets that are still being performed and reproduced numerous times to this day. One of the many reasons why Shakespeare is wildy influential, even after his death, is because of how his many works have touched on subjects or issues that are relevant topics that relate to people in modern day and how his droves of innovative works challenge the basics of writing and language style, causing his work to still be communicated in classrooms today (Garber). William Shakespeare’s discussion of themes such as tragedy and courage that are incredibly relevant today is a factor as to why Shakespeare as a writer holds relevance in today’s society and curriculum. “His plays delve into the issues of love, loss, honor..fear, courage, and wonder” (Smith).
By definition plagiarism is “the act of taking someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as if it were your own.” There are many different types of plagiarism, such as having someone write a paper for you, copying somers paper or just copying something right from the internet. Plagiarism is wrong in many ways because if you are caught you are only hurting yourself. You hurt yourself by having teachers or professors question who you really are. Plagiarism is cheating.
Students are given a certain deadline for work that is to be handed up which will put pressure on and tempt students to find the easiest access to the relevant information needed. Students may feel after submitting their own work that they do not receive the result they deserve and therefore could tempt them to take data and information from other sources in the hope to receive a higher grade in their next assignment. Whenever a student uses sourced material, this could be either published primary or secondary material, but can also be information got from other people, it must be indicated. It entails a solid set of values and failure to comply with these standard ethics may constitute an act of plagiarism. There are several things that count as plagiarism for instant, quoting exactly from another source, any ideas borrowed from another source, all ideas taken from the internet and any ideas paraphrased from another
