Plagiarism: Bard High School Early College

Plagiarism is borrowing someone's thoughts or concepts without acknowledging the source. It is illegal for a student to steal an author’s thoughts without permission. For example, Rebecca Moore Howard indicates that some students patchwork which means to quilt with a lot of resources from websites, books and other source on their essay without citations and references (as cited in Nall & Gherwash Aug 12, 2013). Even though students have written it in their own words, their writing needs citations and references because the source's information is not from their own ideas. They need sufficient paraphrasing by their own words with citations and references to avoid plagiarism (as cited in Nall & Gherwash Aug 12, 2013). George Brown and Centennial College each have academic honesty policy. While both school policies have a similar definition of plagiarism, they have a few differences in terms of the clarity and specify penalties.

Plagiarism is an increasing large issue on college campuses, a habit to most of the student. According to the article ‘’The Plagiarism Plague’’, the findings on the survey made to 50,000 students on more than 60 campuses was that 70 percent of the students admitted that they cheated. Half of the students surveyed admitted that one or more times made serious cheating on writing assignments, with 77 percent of the students surveyed said that cheating was not a serious issue.

Plagiarism is an illegal act in that a writer uses another’s word or ideas as their own without proper resources. According to Pennycook(as cited in Nall&Gherwash, Aug 12, 2013), the borrowing of word is considered a serious problem in terms of stealing ideas from authors. In other word, a writer should be aware of plagiarism while writing. Each school has different plagiarism polices. Between two colleges, George Brown College and Seneca College, they have common the standards of academic honesty but also, they have different course of actions in different ways to score the course and suspension periods.

In the article, “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age” written by author Trip Gabriel, there are multiple views on the aspects of plagiarism. Some people refuse to take plagiarism seriously, having a strong educational background as foundation as well as respect for other individuals work. Plagiarism is a serious offense and often considered a form of theft. Consequences for plagiarism can vary depending upon the campus, but can lead up to expulsion. Plagiarism commonly known as taking pieces of ideas or words and phrases from someone without giving credit.

Plagiarism is an act of lying, cheating, a form of deception. However, it's an easy alternative to getting your work done. People believe that they can get away with plagiarism, but every time the action is done, the risk increases. "What I found is that when you cross the line once, it becomes easier, and easier, to cross it again" (Blair). Jayson Blair was a former journalist in the New York Times who dedicate their lives to finding the truth. In a surprising turn of events, it was revealed that Blair wasn't creating his own work.

Now some would argue that in order to truly plagiarize someone else’s work they have to be a copy written author. This how ever is not true from an academic point of view. Plagiarism covers so much more, i.e.; using unauthorized notes during a test, copying answers from another student during a test, downloading information such as text, computer code, artwork, or graphics from the internet and presenting it as you’re work without acknowledgment, copying from others during a work group and even

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” a famous quote by Isaac Newton, who ironically probably developed this idea based off of the thoughts of someone before him. This is the way our culture progresses, we build on ideas from others. In his article “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell acknowledges that the idea of originality does not exist, but rather it is a construct of society. He further argues that as long as one transforms someones ideas—similar to what Newton did—it is not considered plagiarism. However, unlike Newtons actions, the flaw in Gladwell’s argument is that he believes that someone can take others ideas without giving them credit. We have come to a point in time where originality no longer

Malcolm Gladwell wrote “Sometheing Borrowed: Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life” in “What the Dog Saw: And other Adventures.” Gladwell’s main point in his story is that plagiarism is unfair and dishonest. He then goes on to discuss the many facets of plagiarism; like melodies in songs and picnic tables. Gladwell wants people who are interested in the arts and humanities to read this because he pulls pieces of music, art and literature to use as examples since plagiarism is a key component in these areas. This is because people change up others work and make it into their own for the world to develop and grow. Malcolm Gladwell explains that when an idea goes public, people are allowed to copy it and make others work into “a grander cause.” Overall I think Gladwell was trying to focus on why ideas are plagiarized and their reasoning behind it, rather than just focusing on the fact that it was plagiarized.

Almost all colleges enforce policy when students commit plagiarism. With regard to plagiarism, two authors’ arguments differ. One of authors, Emma Teitel, a student in Dalhousie University, argued that the punishment of plagiarism is un-fare. She was punished for plagiarism in her third year. She claimed that she just made a technical mistake on her essay and did not intentionally plagiarize from another author’s work (Teitel, November 8, 2011). On the other hand, according to Todd Pettigrew, a professor in Kings University, colleges should make a rule clearly for plagiarized assignments depending on the number of offenses. For example, for student who commits plagiarism the second time should get a stronger punishment than the first offense.

From a societal perspective, plagiarism is seen as an anticipated but unfortunate matter of fact, somewhat like a social faux pas (Martin, 1994). If someone in a high level position were to be revealed for plagiarism, certainly there would be embarrassment and some stigma associated with such knowledge (Green, 2002) but when considered against all possible offenses, likely downplayed as minor. Sadly, these incidents are happening younger and younger (Lahey,

Stevenson School is a private school located on the Pebble Beach, California. “Copyright laws are designed to protect the original works of authors, artists, and musicians. Plagiarism is the passing off of someone else's creation as one's own. It is illegal, and it is a violation of Stevenson's Honor Code.” (Stevenson) Few of the major situations that may involve academic dishonesty are cheating, stealing, lying, etc.. Comparing to our school, Stevenson Honor Code involves students’ personal performance instead of only academic performance. Like KAS, students who have seen other people violating Honor Code are considered as guilty as the

After watching CBS Morning News "Plagiarism" story, I was very shocked that it was that easy to plagiarize. I was shocked to see that people who chose to be authors have plagiarized. Why go into a profession and then steal someone else's work and use it as their own. Then to pass it off in a book or song. I think a person that does all of that loses all creditability. I think there is a big difference between making a few a simple mistakes, like not quoting or paraphrasing and giving credit where credit is due. Mistakes like that happen and can be fixed, but it one thing to pass something off as your own when clearly it is not. To me this means learning the proper way to avoid plagiarism by learning the how to correctly write your papers. Learning

Plagiarism is a concern for academic honesty and personal integrity. When I was an undergrad in the late 1980’s, repositories of papers were kept in an academic department to aid in plagiarism detection. Plagiarism was evaluated by a Professor recognizing particular work and being forced to ask a student for validity of original thought. Today there are tools students can use to avoid plagiarism (Turn It In, 2014). For this course we will submit our writings to an internet site called Turn It In to avoid plagiarism.

Plagiarism, what is it and how to avoid it has been a major question on every students’ mind. Sure it is easy just to copy and paste and take all the credit for the work that another individual put in, but is it worth it? According to WPA, Writing Program Administrators, the definition of plagiarism as states, “plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.” Plagiarism has always concerned teachers and administrators, who want students’ work to repre¬sent their own efforts and to reflect the outcomes of their learning. However, with the advent of the Internet and easy access to almost limitless written material on

“Copying’ or “borrowing” someone else’s words or ideas may perhaps be the more inoffensive way of explaining plagiarism. However, these two terms may deliver a connotation that plagiarism is not much of a serious offense. Whether the act of plagiarising is intentional or unintentional, it is considered as a fraud. In an academic setting plagiarism may even