Plagiarizing

I thought that the readings were very interesting. The articles about plagiarism are what really interested me the most. I can’t believe how dumb some students can be to actually copy other peoples work word for word. Plagiarism is something we learn about very early in our academic careers and there is no excuse to be doing it in college.   

It is so easy to cheat to copy and paste because of the resources and technology available to us. I can see why a student would want to copy and paste because it would just make life that much easier and they will be done with their work quicker and have more time to do another project or whatever they want. But it makes me angry that a student would do this and worse I know students copy and paste and not get caught and get a better grade than me and I did all my own work. It is impossible for a professor to go through hundreds of papers and find every student that cheated.             

I know that in college there is a lot of work and copy and pasting or plagiarizing may seem like a way to make it easier and save time to get work done quicker but I feel that your grade should be earned from your own work. If someone is caught plagiarizing they should be punished or kicked out of the university. It seems like some schools are lenient on plagiarizing and if a student is caught they just get a little slap on the wrist and have to do the paper over again. This won’t fix the problem of plagiarizing in schools today there needs to be stricter consequences for plagiarizing.