Plagiarism: Effect Of Creativity And Critical Thinking
Henry Le
10/14/2015
ENG 121-09R/C
Cause/Effect Final Draft
Plagiarism
Plagiarism. You probably have heard that term a lot throughout your academic career and through your common knowledge. Plagiarism is the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person. There is a lot of effects if you are plagiarism. Plagiarism will hurt your creativity. Creativity is important. Creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. You learn and develop creativity skills throughout your entire academic career. Creativity and critical thinking are important, as you will bring it with for your professional career after you graduate. It is really easy for you to borrow …show more content…
Knowledge is important. When you are plagiarize, you don’t gain any knowledge. You gain knowledge by copy and paste the sources from the Internet and it isn’t call knowledge. Knowledge need to be practice and applied into the new world experiences. For example, a student can write a poorly essay paper in History class but that student will receive a lot of feedback from their instructor and take that feedback seriously to do better for the next paper. Another example will be when you are at work, your boss will give an important task and need to be done. You are new employee and you don’t have any formal training for that task and you do it poorly, the employer will appreciate that you done your job and will give you some feedback on how to that task better and want to make sure that you are improve. People that are plagiarism and don’t have any knowledge is like a tree without its root. In fact, no body like to have a …show more content…
My friend used to be a good student and he is an outstanding student with a 4.0 GPA. In one of his class which is History class, the professor asked him to write an essay about the Vietnam War which he has no idea about that war since that war was in 1955 and it was older than him. I believed what he did is to go to a website called Wikipedia and he wrote word to word from that source and reword a little and submitted it to his professor. Later on, the professor found out that his paper is plagiarized by a helpful program called Turnitin. The student was immediately received a warning from provost and he was suspended from the
10/14/2015
ENG 121-09R/C
Cause/Effect Final Draft
Plagiarism
Plagiarism. You probably have heard that term a lot throughout your academic career and through your common knowledge. Plagiarism is the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that person. There is a lot of effects if you are plagiarism. Plagiarism will hurt your creativity. Creativity is important. Creativity is the use of imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. You learn and develop creativity skills throughout your entire academic career. Creativity and critical thinking are important, as you will bring it with for your professional career after you graduate. It is really easy for you to borrow …show more content…
Knowledge is important. When you are plagiarize, you don’t gain any knowledge. You gain knowledge by copy and paste the sources from the Internet and it isn’t call knowledge. Knowledge need to be practice and applied into the new world experiences. For example, a student can write a poorly essay paper in History class but that student will receive a lot of feedback from their instructor and take that feedback seriously to do better for the next paper. Another example will be when you are at work, your boss will give an important task and need to be done. You are new employee and you don’t have any formal training for that task and you do it poorly, the employer will appreciate that you done your job and will give you some feedback on how to that task better and want to make sure that you are improve. People that are plagiarism and don’t have any knowledge is like a tree without its root. In fact, no body like to have a …show more content…
My friend used to be a good student and he is an outstanding student with a 4.0 GPA. In one of his class which is History class, the professor asked him to write an essay about the Vietnam War which he has no idea about that war since that war was in 1955 and it was older than him. I believed what he did is to go to a website called Wikipedia and he wrote word to word from that source and reword a little and submitted it to his professor. Later on, the professor found out that his paper is plagiarized by a helpful program called Turnitin. The student was immediately received a warning from provost and he was suspended from the