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. …show more content…
In addition, when I was taking English my senior year in high school there where several students who never did there homework and always try to pass by being the teachers pet, but these students would reuse papers from previous class periods or even use students work from years before due to the students being lazy and not doing their homework and waiting till the last minute to turn in their paper, being that these papers that where copied happened to be the ones the teacher had remembered the most. However, being that the students tried to take the easy way out they were suspended for copying the other person’s paper word from word and causes them to fail the class and repeat the class in summer