Summary Of Plagiarism By Susan Blbm

Susan Blum asserts that our efforts to stop plagiarism in colleges are failing, and she offers an alternative to traditional approaches. Susan Blum starts off her article introducing the idea that plagiarism is a problem on college campuses, and current methods to combat plagiarism are failing. She then states, “neither avenue can be universally successful” when referring to the two main ways plagiarism is handled (Blum). The two ways of handling plagiarism are as a moral problem or as a rule/crime are failing to deter plagiarism. Susan Blum also argues that students don’t have a clear understanding of what academic integrity means. She states, “students have only a vague sense of what is meant by the moral quality termed academic integrity” (Blum). What she means is that students do not completely understand what
She states that “students today have been immersed in a culture that revels in trying on different personae and sharing freely” (Blum). By saying this she wants to show that unlike students “in the 1960’s and 1970’s,” students today express less originality and integrity in their work, but in their lives as well (Blum). Blum also states that pressure to succeed causes students to ignore academic integrity; she believes “students are mostly focused on success and achievement” which, is a “bottom-line mentality” that students must break free from (Blum). By this, she means if students would value their education and not be focused solely on success and truly learn the subject, then their work would surely show a decrease in plagiarism, and in an increase in originality. The last point that Susan Blum makes is that students today must be taught how to avoid plagiarism the correct way. She implies this by saying “Students need to be taught the genre requirements of academic