Marisol Romano
College writing l
Maryann Gilligan
9/25/14
Scarcity Final Draft
High School students are more likely to become a subject to plagiarism when their time and resources are scarce and an important assignment is due. Students tend to make decisions based on an instant want without caring about any long term effects. When an assignment is due and they only have a short amount of time to finish; their “mental capacity or, as we call it bandwidth” (17) starts getting taxed and they lose focus on their thought process. In Shair’s and Mullainathan’s Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much these two concepts are discussed. The author explains how “slack” is not appreciated and how Vigilance is important because if you don’t keep track of your resources, you are bound to run out of them. Scarcity is all about keeping balance of your many resources to avoid running out
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In my case resources included time and the material given to me. “Vigilance” is a great way for students who don’t have enough support to exceed in high school. Students who don’t have the right support tend to do the easier thing because no one told them they can’t. Plagiarism is that easier thing because all they have to do is copy and paste something onto their paper; they don’t even have to think of their own ideas. Once they plagiarize and see how easy it is, it gets harder for them to not want to do it. “You have just dug yourself a hole for the extended future, a hole that will require vigilance to climb out of” (212). Vigilance is watching carefully for any possible danger. Students who are vigilant will watch carefully for deadlines. They will also be vigilant too when they are plagiarizing or not. So any student who is vigilant will never have the need for plagiarism. But the one thing about vigilance is you cant just do it once or twice, “Vigilance choices require we continuously repeat the choice”
The students at Lakewood Ranch High School also insinuated that plagiarism was not discussed in class, suggesting that they were insufficiently informed about plagiarism and what it represented. Say this is true the corrective measure would be to discuss plagiarism at the beginning of the school year as well as providing a review during the middle of the academic year. Regardless, these adolescents are capable of understanding concepts, standard principles of morality (Feldman, 2014). Therefore, in my opinion they were aware of their actions of intentional copying and submitting another person’s work. Which ultimately resulted with a greater desire for rewards despite the possibility of
While Tim Gabriel claims that it is the easiness of Internet use that is at faulty, where as David Callahan is disagreeing and saying it is the administrations and staff’s fault for not helping and explain why plagiarism is wrong. Many believe people that cheat or plagiarize are lazy and that they want the easy way out. People that plagiarize might think it is faster and easier to get things done. Gabriel explains, “Ms. Brookover, who works at the campus library, has pondered the differences between researching in the stacks and online. “Because you’re not walking into a library, you’re not physically holding the article, which takes you closer to ‘this doesn’t belong to me,’ ” she said. Online, “everything can belong to you really easily” (Gabriel 14). Ms. Brookover explains how the students today are in a different era, before one would have to take time and search for answers in books and journals, where as now all the answers are one click away on the Internet. It is very easy to take someone else’s ideas and make them your because of the Internet according to Gabriel. Callahan said “ America wasn't a fair place for kids like him, so it made sense to try to level the playing field by bending a few rules” (Callahan 3). Students start bending the rules the minutes they copy a phrase or a paragraph that isn’t theirs. Many colleges out their expect college students
Malesic shares his own personal experience as an English teacher at a college just how often students are willing to plagiarize their papers. He talks about the first time he was offended by the student that did this, and thought that it was his fault, but as he consolidated with other teachers, he learned that plagiarism isn’t as rare as he considered. Many of his colleagues told different stories of the times that they have caught plagiarism throughout their career. He tells his story about the various causes of why this happens everywhere. Malesic comes up with that students think that they know everything there is about reading and writing, however, in order to plagiarize, the person has to have exceptional skills in English, which they often do not, and it is a dead giveaway. Just because he was hurt by plagiarizing, doesn’t mean he will do something necessary as a consequence
Stated in “The Myth of Inferiority” by T. Allen Culpepper, students who have hard lives are justified to having late papers, excessive absences, rewrite opportunities, but never plagiarized work. Throughout the article many examples are stated to support why. Students deal with financial instability, cope with economic hardships, and are always competing with obligations between family, work and school.
Plagiarism is using someone else’s work, words, production, researches and ideas without the approval or the acknowledgment of the writer or producer, and claiming the credit for himself. Many reasons and factors are attributed for the use of plagiarism and could be cultural, historical, linguistic, environmental and educational background. Plagiarism is a form of an academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, and a digital cheating. It is declared to be an unacceptable legal act and institutional regulations. And universities, schools, and instructors do not only need to decrease plagiarism, but they must also affect positively on students writings, increase the understanding of how to use digital technology to facilitate their academic writing.
With the ever-increasing wealth of information provided by a simple Internet search, students are finding their resource options growing. From hundreds of topic specific sources to completely written essays, students are challenged to use their own words. Michelle Cleary addresses the issues of plagiarism faced by students today while giving real-life solutions from an instructor’s view in her article, "Top 10 Reasons Students Plagiarize & What Teachers Can Do about It (With Apologies to David Letterman)". From research methods to writing instructions, the author uses a cause and effect scenario to illustrate the plagiarism problems and suggests methods that encourage academic success. Students struggle not only with the temptation to plagiarize, but also worry about inadvertently plagiarizing, and the ramifications of their actions.
Almost every student has been there: staring at his/her computer trying to get an assignment done when they have twenty other obligations swinging over his/her head. Students are trying to find the fastest and easiest way to get the assignment completed. Many students will plagiarize intentionally or unintentionally at some point of their educational career. Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work or ideas then calling that work their own. There is no acknowledgement being given to the original author. In Trip Gabriel’s “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age,” the internet has created new challenges for students being able to give credit to ideas and information. Often, Students do not understand that information on
Due to the Internet academic plagiarism has become the most common and serious problem in school of all levels. “In Roget’s Thesaurus plagiarism comes under theft, and there’s little sympathy for those accused of stealing other people’s work and presenting it as their own” (Revell, 2006). Plagiarism is on the rise in academia due to two main reasons. One of the reasons is because students do not know how to cite sources and references properly, or students do not fully understand what constitutes plagiarism. In addition, many students do not know they can also plagiarize against themselves. Self-plagiarism or double dipping occurs when students use the same paper that he or she had submitted for another class without the proper citation of the original work (University of Phoenix, 2009). Therefore, when a student plagiarizes his or her paper it is equivalent to committing theft.
The concept of plagiarism is remarkably personal and this has been a subject of debate. Most critics argue that not only does technologies like the internet and smart phones distract students but it makes students perform poorly in school, but they also argue that it increases their chances to plagiarized. For example, in a research conducted in a university about the assessment and evaluation in Higher Education, 75% of students strongly agreed that using someone’s work without citing their work is wrong. If many of students believe this, why do somer student plagiarized. As a student myself, I knew students that plagiarized. Though they knew their actions were bad, they wanted to get a good grade.Most believed that it was not a big deal
Students now have the ability to cut and paste sections of an article, or they can purchase a term paper on-line. He also believes that they plagiarize because they “are faced with too many choices, so they put off low priorities.”[4] If a student has a lot of things to do, they will not spend much time on the things that have a low priority or things that are considered boring. He also points out that a big reason for plagiarism is that “many students have poor time management and planning skills.”[5] If the student waits until the last minute to write a paper, they may not have enough time to completely research topic. Other students plagiarize because they “fear that their writing ability is inadequate.”[6] If the student does not believe that they have the ability to do good work, they may think that the only chance to get a good grade is to cheat.
This causal analysis is to inform college students about the definition of plagiarism and how to avoid it. How students easy fall in some kind of plagiarism when they are copying someone’s work or paraphrasing without giving the credit to the author. Plagiarism has been growing as Susan D. Blum explained in her book My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture that 75% of the American students have admit that they cheated and 68% have convicted that they cut and paste the material without citation (pg.1). Some students do it on purpose and some are dishonest with their studies while on other hand some student does it when they lack time or are under pressure from work. There are main four types of plagiarism that includes cheating
Academic learning in today’s changing world brings demands to future professionals. Whether in a traditional classroom, or through distance learning, one thing is similar and which cannot bring forth a successful educational future. One thing that can damage anyone’s academic future is plagiarism. Whether being the future of a straight “A” student, or a student who is just getting by. The fact remains that anyone can fall victim to plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of other writer’s words without acknowledging the source and taking those words and passing them off as one’s own ideas (Jones, 2001). Some people may think plagiarism is just copying someone else’s work but in reality plagiarism is much serious and hold very serious
Being a college student is hard. College requires plenty of work. Some students have other things to do besides going to school; some of them need to work in order to pay for their tuition. When school isn’t the only thing students have to worry about, they might get behind in their classes, but they can’t fail them so they have to find out a way to stay on both their job and school. A large amount of students are pushed into cheating; they do it so often that suddenly it becomes a habit. Nowadays, plagiarism is extremely popular. Students don’t like using their brain anymore; they just copy and paste. To avoid plagiarism, students should do their own work; learn how to cite in a proper form, and understand that plagiarism can result in
The paper responds to this proposition with a thesis that understanding the ethical reasoning provided by students in defending plagiarism is crucial in preventing it in student populations. The reasons can provide the basis for specific action-orientated recommendations to reduce plagiarism and to design programs to encourage originality and
Students may have poor time-management skills or they may plan poorly for the time and effort required for research-based writing, and believe they have no choice but to plagia¬rize. Students may view the course, the assignment, the conventions of academic documenta¬tion, or the consequences of cheating as unimportant. Teachers may present students with assignments so generic or unparticularized that stu¬dents may believe they are justified in looking for canned responses. Instructors and institutions may fail to report cheating when it does occur, or may not enforce appropriate penalties. (http://www.wpacouncil.org). In The New Century Handbook, there are a few helpful ways described to avoid plagiarism. Step one is to take accurate, usable notes. Step two to record complete citation (bibliographic) information along with your notes. Step three is to determine when acknowledgment is needed. Step four; avoid copying and pasting information (text or graphics) from the Internet into your paper. Step