Cyber plagiarism, cut and paste, cyber cheating, high tech cheating, "patch writing" (R. M. Howard), theft of intellectual property: all these terms describe ways students use others’ words and ideas without attribution, whether deliberately or inadvertently.
Today, technology has become so advanced that plagiarism in high schools has become a major problem. Probably the most detestable task for a student is the projects they have to do at school. Few resorted to cheating that was thought to be the easiest solution to the problem. Copied papers were handed in and claimed to be the original ones. Now that the command of the Internet has become inversely proportionate to age, the process of cheating has turned out extremely easy. High school, college and university students log on the internet download papers or articles and present them as their own. And since there is plenty of material in the English language, the cheating phenomenon in English speaking countries has acquired the magnitude of an epidemic.
Responding to cheating is perhaps one of the most distasteful, time-consuming, and undervalued tasks that a teacher can face. Detecting plagiarism sometimes begins with a hunch or suspicion, and tracking it down is most often a very time-consuming effort.
The one main problem with plagiarism in schools is that it is so easy to do. So easy, in fact, that would one suspect that this entire paper could have been plagiarized. Coincidentally, it is! This entire paper, excluding this last paragraph, is not rightfully mine. I might mention, though, that it took me almost as long to find the material as it would have to write an original essay! So think twice before you take the risk! Plagiarism is not only morally wrong, it simply isn’t worth it!
http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism/index.htm
http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism/detection.htm
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=12152
2 comments:
It's annoying to have to try and catch students, but it really isn't that hard. I posted a sentence from your essay into Google in quotes and found one of your sources immediately. I entered, "And since there is plenty of material in the English language, the cheating phenomenon in English speaking countries has acquired the magnitude" and found the article "Electronic plagiarism at schools is a blight on our society" by Pashos Mandravelis on CRDinfo.com. The article isn't nearly as clever as yours, which brings up another good reason not to copy online: A lot of the stuff online is garbage you wouldn't want to stick your name on.
Good job making the essay cohesive, by the way. Not only is it a clever premise, but you executed it well. Nicely done.
-Mr.G
not bad Alex...
Dad..
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