Plagiarism
Plagiarizing is a Crime
We all dream of being successful one day in our lives. We all have the loving support of all our friends and family to back us up on our journey to success, but sometimes that’s just not enough. Sometimes life gets rough and we fall under pressure. The pressure can be suffocating and we will be willing to do anything to escape the social corner we have been pushed into. Chris Spence is an example of this. He was a student at the University of Toronto that wanted nothing but to achieve his dream. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong path to travel down by plagiarising and now it is a possibility that his degrees could taken away. It would be ethical to have his degrees taken away.
Chris Spence’s degrees being taken would be the most ethical thing that could be done. This is true due to the fact that he stole, plain and simple. It is just like he said, “there are no excuses for what I did; I didn’t give credit where credit was due.” Not many people would be okay to be robbed of their own work. Stealing ideas is like stealing from a store. You are stealing someone else’s work for your own profit and benefit. It is important that we learn how to give credit where it belongs so we can examine how much of our own is actually a part of our success.
There is no excuse for plagiarizing. No matter what the situation is, plagiarizing is a serious crime in the laws of education. In the article, Chris Spence tries to justify himself by saying “I’m a fairly prolific reader, so sometimes I just read ideas that meshed with my own.”. This is just an excuse and it is not a valid reason to plagiarize. By giving such an excuse, it makes it ethical that his degrees should be taken away. It would only be fair.
Plagiarizing is a crime in the laws of education. People knowingly plagiarize when they cannot think of their own ideas and choose to be lazy by taking the “easy way out”. Same is the case with “Chris Spence”. He plagiarizes to be successful. It would
We all dream of being successful one day in our lives. We all have the loving support of all our friends and family to back us up on our journey to success, but sometimes that’s just not enough. Sometimes life gets rough and we fall under pressure. The pressure can be suffocating and we will be willing to do anything to escape the social corner we have been pushed into. Chris Spence is an example of this. He was a student at the University of Toronto that wanted nothing but to achieve his dream. Unfortunately, he chose the wrong path to travel down by plagiarising and now it is a possibility that his degrees could taken away. It would be ethical to have his degrees taken away.
Chris Spence’s degrees being taken would be the most ethical thing that could be done. This is true due to the fact that he stole, plain and simple. It is just like he said, “there are no excuses for what I did; I didn’t give credit where credit was due.” Not many people would be okay to be robbed of their own work. Stealing ideas is like stealing from a store. You are stealing someone else’s work for your own profit and benefit. It is important that we learn how to give credit where it belongs so we can examine how much of our own is actually a part of our success.
There is no excuse for plagiarizing. No matter what the situation is, plagiarizing is a serious crime in the laws of education. In the article, Chris Spence tries to justify himself by saying “I’m a fairly prolific reader, so sometimes I just read ideas that meshed with my own.”. This is just an excuse and it is not a valid reason to plagiarize. By giving such an excuse, it makes it ethical that his degrees should be taken away. It would only be fair.
Plagiarizing is a crime in the laws of education. People knowingly plagiarize when they cannot think of their own ideas and choose to be lazy by taking the “easy way out”. Same is the case with “Chris Spence”. He plagiarizes to be successful. It would