Article Information Voelker, T. A., Love, L. G., & Pentina, I. (2012). Plagiarism: What don't they

Kennedy once said, “A child miseducated is a child lost”. In this circumstance, President Kennedy’s statement is exceptionally true. By not receiving a severe punishment, these students are not receiving the valuable education of being held accountable for their actions. Not acknowledging the seriousness of plagiarism early on could eventually lead to much greater consequences than receiving a zero. In a point of fact, anyone who reproduces someone’s intellectual property can be prosecuted in a court of law. Understanding the severity of plagiarism early on could avoid such a punishment altogether, by accepting a punishment incomparable to the one that lays

Today, education is big business. With the explosion of the Internet, more and more people are pursuing advanced education. It has never been easier to get your Bachelors or Masters degree. The business of plagiarism has become big business also. In this paper I will discuss how Brenau University defines plagiarism, what are some potential punishments for intentionally and unintentionally plagiarizing as a student at Brenau University. I will also explain how students attitudes toward plagiarism can impact intellectual property within the general environment of US businesses. Finally, I will examine how as a manager, in my company, can these attitudes lead to damaging your company’s competitive advantage.

Getting insight to different cultures can essentially support and benefit educators to help tackle plagiarism with students from different cultures. Students from different cultures often have difficulty in combating plagiarism. Due to the different upbringing many students don’t know or learn about plagiarism so it’s up to the professors to help them understand. After reading this article, i felt like i could relate to the chinese students because, in my

In Canadian universities, the problem of plagiarism is very extensive and must be dealt with accordingly. However, many students commit plagiarism without even realizing it. As someone described the act of plagiarism “Ignorance is never an excuse.” (as cited in Tietel, 2011, Nov 8). Technological developments have made “turning it in” easier than ever, so each school has its own policy for preventing plagiarism. To better understand the plagiarism, compare the strengths and weaknesses of George Brown College and Seneca College’s academic honesty. Despite having similar definitions, each college has its own point of view concerning plagiarism. Once these similarities and differences have been explained in detail, the strengths and weaknesses of each policy will be evident.

Teachers have been losing a technological war with their students over plagiarism for many years. Since the times when term papers and other assignments were written by hand, students have been willing to present work completed by other people as their own. Today with a greater array of tools available to students the plagiarism problem has exploded (Auer, 2001). From the simple cutting-and-pasting from un-cited sources to the use of searchable collections of term papers available for purchase, students have a huge selection of information and techniques that make it easier for them to commit plagiarism (Auer, 2001). However, teachers and educators are now starting to use the same

The major reason for why these academic dishonest acts can happen is related to students not understanding what is considered “cheating” or plagiarism.3,4 There are different levels of plagiarism which students perceive differently regarding the seriousness of the act.2 In a survey of

Mark Twain (1903) an American writer, stated in a letter to his friend, Helen Keller that the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances— is plagiarism. Plagiarism damages reputations, both personal and universal; it promotes mediocrity, extinguishes creativity, limits educational experiences and exsanguinates learning. Metaphorically speaking, if a deadly virus is left untreated, an epidemic will begin and eventually will deplete a population. Plagiarism acts as a fastidious, pathogenic, virus infecting others with a mentality of mediocrity and commonplace, and eventually annihilates true learning and creative talent. If left untreated or ignored, this problem will continue to rise from the current state and transform into a constant. There are ways to prevent this unruly fact, but one must be ready to face the obvious situation, and take measures to limit this growing problem. This article will explain plagiarism and the reasons college students turn so quickly to such an unstable “solution”. It will also present alternative ideas to learning and measures to limit the need that students feel for plagiarism and promote personal creativity. Not only do we see this moral plague in academics, but in many other fields, such as entertainment, art, and the written world. Thus it can be explained as receiving an ownership on someone’s work without their permission and without giving any credit to them intentionally or

Critical comparison of two journal articles on different perceptions and attitudes towards plagiarism and academic misconduct.

After reading that 52 percent of students admit to have copied someone else's words without citation in “Rethinking Plagiarism in the Digital Age”  by Lea Calvert Evering and Gary Moorman. I have come to realize that plagiarism is a major problem and policies should be endorsed in a more positive way. because it is a form of  academic dishonesty, students do not learn by cheating and it is not fair for students who actually follow the rules..

Plagiarism has long since been an issue- especially in the classroom. Students try to pass off other people’s work as their own, sometimes stealing ideas, other times even entire papers. In Melissa D’Annunzio’s Ted Talk, “The Punishable Perils of Plagiarism”, she illustrates the severity of plagiarism through an animated video. In the video, there’s a fake department in charge of tracking down people who plagiarize and then throwing them in jail. By making up this scenario, she shows just how serious plagiarism is, and how that is often highly underestimated. In the article “Avoiding Plagiarism”, Karl Stolley, Allen Brizee, and Joshua Paiz go into the different types of plagiarism- from unintentional to intentional and highlight some of the struggles students face when trying to avoid plagiarism. In the journal article “Does the Adoption of Plagiarism- detection Software in Higher Education Reduce Plagiarism?” by Robert J. Youmans, two studies are discussed, and it’s shown how even telling students that their work will be checked against plagiarism- detection software doesn’t keep them from plagiarizing. By looking at these three sources, and comparing and contrasting them, the issue of plagiarism can be greater realized.

McLennan, L. (2003). Briefing: Plagiarism at universities. The Sunday Times, 7 January, 2003. Available at http:www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/specials/article809537.ece.

In the data collected by Hard, a drastic 60.6 percent of students had copied sentences, phrases, paragraphs, tables, figures, or data directly or in slight modification of a book, article, or other academic sources without giving proper acknowledgment to the author (Hard 1069). This statistically illustrates that plagiarizing has become acceptable among most young adults. In sum, the main issues are the deteriorated integrity of the student when plagiarism occurs and degenerated ethics that happen to lessen one’s morals.

Plagiarism problems have detour students from obtaining the necessary set of skills of evaluating ideas. University students tend to commit plagiarism by cites or takes credit on someone else’s work or ideas without proper citations

In “Copy and Paste No More,” David Langsam argues that the reason plagiarism is plaguing academic institutions is because students are overworked, and because it has become so easy to cheat. The high workload provides incentive for students to plagiarise, and their access to websites that allow them to buy papers makes it easier for them to do so. Thus, Langsam argues that the way to combat plagiarism is by decreasing the workload and making it impossible for students to cheat through in-class assignments. This essay will argue that students being overworked is not the reason behind plagiarism, and that in order to decrease the cases of plagiarism, students need to be well-informed about the consequences.

In “Copy and Paste No More,” David Langsam argues that the reason plagiarism is plaguing academic institutions is because students are overworked, and because it has become so easy to cheat. The high workload provides incentive for students to plagiarize, and their access to websites that allow them to buy papers makes it easier for them to do so. Thus, Langsam argues that the way to combat plagiarism is by decreasing the workload and making it impossible for students to cheat through in-class assignments. This essay will argue that students being overworked is not the reason behind plagiarism, and that in order to decrease the cases of plagiarism, students need to be well-informed about the consequences.