Plagiarism Lines Blur For Students In Digital Age

In the digital age, which allows the use of the Internet in research, the lines of plagiarism are clearer and more identifiable for students than is the case with traditional research, which relies on works in hard-copy form.

In “ Generation Plagiarism” by Sarah Wilensky argues that stealing others work it’s wrong and it shouldn’t be permitted. The article is mostly about being against cheating, and by using strict ways young people will start writing originally. One evidence is that” We write papers with our sources open in neighboring windows on the same laptop screen, and we have access to more of other people’s ideas than ever before-without even getting off the sofa.”(par 5). Wilensky’s purpose of writing this is that she wants to show how easy is to steal others work just with other windows open and not even getting up from the sofa. We have access to a lot of other ideas and work so it’s so easy for us to copy and paste. Wilensky’s solution is that” if a professor or teaching assistant actually gave the big old F every time they wondered about a very familiar paragraph in a paper, our copy-paste generation would quickly learn how to write originally and cite appropriately.”(par 11). What this solution means is that if a professor gives an F whenever he or she notices that this paragraph is familiar, so they can teach the copy-paste generation how to use and write their original work and ideas. In “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age “ by Trip Gabriel mostly have the same point of view as Wilensky’s. Gabriel also argues that when you write a paragraph with a bunch of ideas and mixing them it doesn’t mean that you have a new idea. One evidence is that “ Now we have a whole generation of students who’ve grown up with information that just seems to be hanging out there in cyberspace and doesn’t seem to have an author.”(par6). What this evidence is showing is that now we have a generation that believes they can use anyone's articles and information as it has no author. Internet is making the world easier for people just to copy and put no

The writer, Todd Pettigrew wrote the article “All your profs wrong about plagiarism,” explains that plagiarism takes the form of counterfeiting, which means to fake instead of stealing. Many college students result to piracy rather than to add in the work because they are lazy or desperate to succeed and rarely pay attention to the causes of cheating. Students who view plagiarism as counterfeiting may see nothing wrong with the crime because they fake their work instead of stealing another person’s own words. The scholar knows the system of cheating, acknowledges the consequences, and understands the crime; however, continues the offense because they want to pass the class. The two main ways to cheat consist of going online and blatantly stealing

Trip Gabriel's Article titled "Plagiarism Lines Blur For Students In Digital Age" Is a report on Plagiarism becoming a issue with the advancement of technology. Gabriel, former New York Times editor "...Gave up editing to return to full-time reporting..." Gabriel believes that plagiarism is at an all time high within colleges. a lot of kids don't even try to hide their academic dishonesty. Ranging from a student who "...did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information."; To a kid who did not even bother to change the color of the font he copied and pasted from a website, and everything in between. "Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy" (Gabriel 619). Today you can

In high school many students use other peoples work from the internet, books, magazines or articles. The teachers rarely asked students to turn their work in typed, when they did type papers for class many of the students wrote some of their own words at the beginning. Towards the end of the writing they used other peoples work in their writing by just changing the wording around of the persons work. Many of the teacher not until the research paper really checked students work to see if they have used other people work in the right way. Plagiarism was not talked about in high school as much as it needs to be, Lawrence Hinman once said this in an essay he wrote on college cheating “Recent studies have shown that a steadily growing number of students cheat or plagiarize in college and the data from high schools suggest that this number will continue to rise” (Himan 371). Students in high school need to learn early that plagiarism is not ok and if they do it, there should be school policies giving that enforce consequences for doing it. Teachers at

Plagiarism is increasingly becoming a more significant issue in colleges nowadays. It destroys creative thinking of a person and needs to be tackled with conscious efforts from colleges and students. Plagiarism is a fraudulent act in which you use another person’s work and fail to give a reference. It is ethically wrong, and breaks the academic code of conduct, affecting the student’s reputation and performance. In colleges, plagiarism can occur because students fear to fail or due to poor time management, thus, they are unable to conduct research efficiently.

“Copy from one, is plagiarism; copy from many, it’s research.”- Wilson Mizner. Students copy during homework and assignments. Most students copy during exams and assignments because they want to pass the test or get good grade; however, plagiarism is copying other’s work without giving them credit. The other is cheating, done to help one do better on tests. Plagiarism is not good for students because the students are not putting in the required credit hours to help better oneself. It is unfair when you plagiaries other work and don’t give them the credit they deserve for having put all that work an effort in discovering that idea. As Minzer said, “copy from many, it’s research” many students fail to do this. When doing research a student supposed

Online education has been one of the largest growing concepts of learning new skills and gain knowledge throughout the digital world. Over ten years ago educational institutes were using textbooks, blackboards and paper to teach higher learning techniques. While online education is a part of the digital society it gives many people ways to balance life and accomplish an online degree for success. The convenience of online education you are able to complete assignments on mobile devices and build academic integrity to not plagiarize. Using online education has a high chance for students to plagiarize which is a disadvantage. Before going continuing the first step is to know what plagiarism is, plagiarism is when you or someone copy word for word what a source said without citing the resource that created the information. Having the ability to know intentional and unintentional plagiarism can help many students to develop good habits on not cheating the system. Intentional is using others words to claim as your own and unintentional plagiarism is borrowing words, ideas and citing wrong resources. While online education is a part of social society it gives us a way to balance out life and still be successful with discipline. Throughout my paper I will be addressing the impact, concept and/or different perspectives on plagiarism and online

Plagiarism has become a serious problem among high school and college students. A lot of this could be that the attitudes and moral values of students have changed and a high percentage of students do not worry about being caught. In a recent survey, it is reported that at least 28% of students do not worry about the potential consequences of plagiarism (“Survey Reveals Unique Insights to US Students’ Attitudes Towards Plagiarism”). Some students often claim they did not know they were doing anything wrong, especially those who claimed to speak a language other than English (Cross). Of course, with the endless amount of information available on the internet, a student can easily educate themselves on the proper way to cite an essay. If a student does not choose good morals and ethics when writing essays, the battle for plagiarism will continue. To avoid further risk of detection, students will also use paid services that write essays. Even though this method is hard to detect, a good teacher can notice changes in a student's writing style, which will send a red-flag (Cross). If students continue to lower their moral and ethical values, universities will increase technology to detect plagiarism. Students should learn to write their own content and develop their skills. Anti-plagiarism software will help deter students from copying from others work without citing (Graham-Matheson and

First reason students plagiarize is just the simple fact that it is easy to do. Instead of taking your time, forming your own thoughts, and siting down to put those thoughts and opinions into their paper, students find it easy to just copy down someone else’s information. In a survey conducted “about 40% of 14,000 undergraduates admitted to copying a few sentences in written assignments” (The New York Times). In 8th grade when I would first get into my English class me and my friend would swap our notes and papers and copy each other to get more information then we already had. It was that simple. But the technology we have today makes it a few more steps easier than a few years ago to plagiarize. Now we have technology to help us. All kids have to do is copy and paste, make the sentences sound good together

It states in the article “Digital technology makes copying and pasting easy, of course”. Also “But that is the least of it. The Internet may also be redefining how students-who came of age with music file-sharing, Wikipedia and Web-linking-understand the concept of authorship and the singularity of any text image”. Copying and pasting is a form of plagiarism, unless you put it in quotations and cite the source. In the article it also states “back in 2010, Trip Gabriel wrote, in “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”, that “students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed”.

A lot of students plagiarize without even realizing it. Throughout my paper I am going to tell you why students plagiarize, how plagiarism is detected, what the consequences are, why it’s important for students to understand, and what constitutes plagiarism. By the time I get done with my paper you will know all you need to know about plagiarism. Before we get started I am going to give you a definition of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas or other original material without acknowledging (council of writing program administrators, 2003)

In today’s world, plagiarism has become a common problem within our education, from junior high students who copy last minute homeworks, to prestigious Harvard undergrads working toward their degrees. But what exactly is Plagiarism? Richard Posner, a former judge to the court of appeals, defines it as “unacknowledged copying, whether of copyrighted or uncopyrighted work” Plagiarism affects student bodies in their entirety. However, why do students feel the need to cheat? A major influence that makes students more prone to cheating is the rigorous school work, and lack of student-teacher connection in Universities. This problem of plagiarism that has surfaced in today's world is due to the lack of attention within educational administrators. College administrators must strengthen the student-teacher relationships and apply the curriculum to the needs of each specific student in order to maintain academic integrity within the student body.

Plagiarism has increased due to the growth of technology. According to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary, plagiarism is “the act of stealing or passing off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own without crediting the source.” Many students tend to plagiarize research papers without realizing they are plagiarizing. Plagiarism is more serious than students believe it to be. “The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way” (plagiarism.org). Plagiarism is against the law and can become a serious event when publishing your work. Students need to be taught how important it is to prevent plagiarism in their work. Due to the rise in students using technology and the Internet more for assignments, plagiarism has been increasing (Sisti, 218). Dominic A. Sisti discussed how there are two types of plagiarism, copy and paste plagiarism and term paper purchasing. Copy and paste plagiarism has been the most stressed in the schools I have attended. This could be as easy as taking one sentence to a whole paragraph from someone’s work. Term paper purchasing is when a website “offers and guarantees ‘non-plagiarized papers’” for a student to buy and use as their work (Sisti, 219). More websites have been created for students to purchase these. Both are considered plagiarism and need to be stopped.

Today plagiarism increase among the academic students more than ever. Plagiarism has been defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as “the act of taking the writing of another person and passing them of as one’s own” Also simply we can define as stealing someone’s work or idea. There are several reasons why student plagiarize and why it increases. Plagiarism increases because of growing technology. By using a search engine in google or any other search engine it’s easy to download thousands of files in a very short time and then using copy, past make it easy to plagiarize or taking picture by smart phones from your homework or exam question and send it by text message or email to others. Also, laziness, lack of time and planning, fear of failure, lack of interest are some other reason for plagiarism.” two surveys were conducted by Stephen Davis over a six-year period from 1987-1992 in large and small, public and privet universities and college across the united states. He found similar reason for cheating at all of the sites: the most frequently reason for cheating was “I do study, but cheat to enhance my score” (29.75%). “My job cuts down on study time” (14.28%) and “usually don’t study” (13.60%) also were high on the list “I cheat so my GPA looks better to prospective employers” (8.16%) and “I fell pressure from parents to get a good grade so I cheat” (6.80%)”. (Lathrop and Kathleen,33)