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INFO 103: A Brief Note On Plagiarism And Education

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Plagiarism and Education
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Tracey Johnson
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One challenge to any level of school be it elementary, middle school, high school or college is writing papers or essays. The challenge to writing any of these types of works is getting the information correct and transposing it to your own words to avoid plagiarism. This is a challenge that most do not know a lot about. However, not only do your grades but, your integrity with your instructors and those around you can be effected negatively by this avoidable mistake. One thing that you need to be aware of when writing any type of paper is using your own words and when you need to use information from other sources knowing how …show more content…

He says in his paper that of all students 3% admit to being caught plagiarizing on their papers while in college. (Liebler, 2009) Also of the students in the research 2% say that they have never been caught. These are not only astounding figures but, they are also costly not only on the instructors but, the schools themselves. As stated previously in this paper it was noted that plagiarism is a crime. With that being said a lot of schools have set up punitive steps to counter the use of plagiarism. Most schools spend money to combat plagiarism by using systems such as Turnitin. The schools must pay fees for the use of these programs so that their students can utilize them any time they need to write a paper. Not only do schools spend money on these programs and systems but, if a student is caught plagiarizing most schools have a punitive system in place. These systems are there to react to the cases as they arise. With these systems in place the schools have to pay wages to those who work on these panels that deal with the students. The cost is not only on the schools but the students as …show more content…

This is costing the student because now they have to not only pay for the class but, also pay to retake the class. The students also face suspension from the school and or even expulsion depending on the offense. Ashford’s plagiarism policy states the punishment for academic dishonesty such as plagiarism is failure of the course, not receiving credit for the course and or removal from the university. (Ashford, 2013) Ashford’s definition of plagiarism is “Representing the words or ideas of another as one's own in any academic exercise”, meaning that you used someone else information or

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