The Ethical Reasons For Plagiarism

Had there been no internet, the earth would have been a better place to live in with increased peace and happiness. The internet has not only deteriorated the social structures, norms and civilization, it has also had effected people’s day to day life. A social network through internet has created a lot of problems in the modern society. In the article “Friending, Ancient or Otherwise”, Wright argues how there has been a shift in communication between the individual and the society. It has corrupted the English language and degraded the overall educational qualities. Internet also helps students plagiarize materials. Despite of its some usefulness in the modern world, internet and social

Growing up as a child I've always used the internet as a source to chat with my friends and family online, to do my homework, and play games. I’ve been on the internet since I was 10 years old. It’s a reliable source I always go to answer my questions. Our society now relies on the internet to answer all of our questions on a daily basis. In Nicholas Carr article his beliefs are that the internet has changed our society in many ways and it has created a negative effect to our way of thinking. However, the internet has provided a positive interaction to college students knowledge, such as YouTube videos offering tips on how to fix things, learn different languages, and how to solve classroom related problems.

Andrea Lunsford, an English professor at Stanford University, states that technology is not hurting students, but it is helping students. Many people believe that ,while students are on the internet, they are wasting time and not learning anything. After concluding that students were using the internet for a substantial amount of time, Andrea Lunsford and her research team discovered that, “rather than leading to a new illiteracy, these activities [seem] to help [students] develop a range [. . .] of writing styles, tones and formats along with a range of abilities” (Lunsford 571). The internet contains many different that students have access to.

The author noted the negative effect of the internet as it making us become lazy, weakness, and less concentrated in reading book or multiple pages. Marshall McLuhan, a media theorist and Scott Karp and Bruce Friedman whose are the online

Although no excuse will lessen the breach of ethical conduct that such behavior repre¬sents, understanding why students plagiarize can help teachers to consider how to reduce the op¬portunities for plagiarism in their classrooms. Students may fear failure or fear taking risks in their own work. (http://www.wpacouncil.org).

To my perspective, the world has and always will be a morally gray playground. Almost everyone has their own countless versions of right and wrong, and everyone must, ideally, bend those morals to conform to the law. However, there will always someone whose moral code is to only follow the law.

Reader- Response to Rothenberg David Rothenberg in his essay “How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers” identifies and explains several clues that disturbing decline of students’ work. The professor was trying to criticize the World Wide Web in some ways such as lack of creativity, outdated material in depth, and decline in the use on a par with the quality of libraries. He persuades his readers who are students and teachers that the internet has not been doing any good to the development of students’ research papers. Rothenberg provides extremely well-described examples that show that the World Wide Web affects negatively on the students’ work.

Is the Internet changing the way a student uses their mind? Nicolas Carr’s Article, Does the Internet Make You Smarter or Dumber? Is about the effects of technology/Internet on education. The Article discusses various ways technology affects a student. Carr’s article gives examples from both perspectives on negative and positive effects of the Internet; however, the negative effects stand out bigger. Carr’s essay is a valuable source for my research paper.

“The purpose of this source was to use scientific methods to analyze how “the internet has had effects on student success” (Torres-Díaz et al, 1).

B. Carr says the internet interferes with our richness of thoughts, because the internet distracts us in to many ways. Our focus has trouble narrowing in on retaining what needs to be learned. A quote from a nobel prize winner Eric Kandel which states when we pay deep attention to a new piece of information we are able to associate it “meaningfully and systematically with knowledge already well established in memory.”  Carr’s conclusion for the future of college education was on a study at Cornell University, half the class was allowed to use internet connected devices during lecture, other half had to keep their computers shut. Those who borrowed the web performed worse. Problems like this can be solved by eliminating all outside distractions from

Without a doubt, ever since the invention of the internet in the late 20th century, it has opened up an entire world of knowledge and has helped to improve our education; or has it? Some believe that with the wide availability of the internet, traditional knowledge is being destroyed by the oversaturation or superficial information that anyone can post without review. As a result, academic knowledge that was once held closely is said to be undermined by the internet. While some problems come with the nature of the internet in this respect, the internet has not only aided the spread of real information, but has improved the foundation of our academic knowledge.

The Internet is a key to development. In the United States, the Internet has a positive effect on education. It has broadened the amount and kind of resources accessible for research, provided students successful techniques for collaboration (discourse boards and forums), and has allowed for social networking to become not as formal and more widespread. The internet has the potential to be an enormous force for augmentation by giving fast and inexpensive information. It has turned into an instructive means for students, expanded

The process of research has changed significantly since the invention of the internet. Students can now access a variety of information at their fingertips including online books, articles, websites, and videos. The internet has surpassed libraries as the main research tool. A few key words can be typed into a search engine and specific information for a topic can be found, which is much easier than going to a library and looking through multiple books. Also, the resources on the internet are more updated than books in a library. Although, many would argue that there are many negative attributes that come with the internet’s effects on research, I believe that the benefits the internet has had on research outweighs any negative elements that come with this unlimited knowledge.

Over the years the internet has been more and more easier to access. The internet has grown exponentially and people all over the world are taking advantage of it day by day. The ones that are getting the most benefit out of it are students. Doing assignment has never been easier, for example, Google can help out finding research information that was hard to find in school textbooks. The internet not only gives the student updated information on the certain topic, but it also as well saves them a lot of time. However, even if the internet is there as an amazing tool to help out people, it can come with some problems.

Second, internet hinders students from doing their homework or assigned task by their own. Thanks to the internet, students