Cited: Murphy, Richard. "Anorexia: The Cheating Disorder." College English 52.8 (1990) : 898-903. Print
Cited: Murphy, Richard. "Anorexia: The Cheating Disorder." College English 52.8 (1990) : 898-903. Print
Students are warned all the time about plagiarism, but many think it is only about being caught cheating. They do not realize that plagiarism is stealing intellectual property, and that being convicted, even of unconscious plagiarism can be very expensive.…
Each person differently views the concept of plagiarism, such as is a view of Lewis’s first experience in 7th grade. As Lewis copies a text from a book for his school book report, he has no idea what plagiarism is and declares the concept strange to him. People restate and copy what other people say all the time. Ironically, as a…
In Russell Smith's insightful piece “A Plague of Plagiarists in a Cut and Paste World” he explores the possibilities of both opinions that could be perceived with the topic of the increasingly pressing issue of plagiarism arising within today's culture. Whilst understanding the reasoning, justified by the advancing technology flooding society, Smith feels that the process of filtering students' essay's through turnitin.com or others is necessary in order to preserve originality and honest education.…
Though most people would blame the student for the material they produce, they aren’t always the ones who are at fault. Patricia Cohen who wrote the article, “Thinking Cap: The Seemingly Persistent Rise of Plagiarism,” states that “If plagiarism were intentional, perhaps students who attended religious institutions, which emphasized traditional moral values, might be less likely to violate the rules.” After conducting a study, she had realized that it didn’t matter if the student came from a religious school or not, the results had remained the same; those being that five out of five students had somehow plagiarized. Because it is difficult to produce content that is completely original, it is hard to tell if the student is really at fault.…
Plagiarism takes numerous structures from just replicating another student’s paper, to writing an exam or manufacturing an official university transcript. Since most specialists have centered their consideration on cheating during examinations or literary theft, little is thought…
plagiarizing daily, Shahs believes there is a solution to the problem According to the author plague will continue until proper changes are made by instructors, students, and administrators. Shahs argues “instructors should improve how they teach academic honesty, administrators should revise and publicize policies treating academic misconduct, and students should value ethics over grades,” (Lamm & Everett, 2007, “Chapter 6 Student Essay. The essay concludes with the author stating several fail attempts at eradicating plagiarism and then offers a guarantee solution to cure all plagiarism in colleges and universities across the United…
In Scott Jaschiks’ book titled “Winning Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism,” Jaschik describes the issue of first-year English students plagiarizing work and the numerous faculty members’ solutions to solve plagiarizing. Teachers, like North Carolina State University professor Kate Hagopian, are working with first-year English students to teach students academic integrity and to understand why students plagiarize. Teachers have researched the issue by performing student evaluations. These evaluations have given teachers better insight to why students would choose to plagiarize. Southern Illinois University at Carbondale professor R. Gerald Nelms explains that some students have an internal behavior that students inherit when they try and imitate writing styles instead of proposing an emotional reaction or response. Without understanding how to express a response to a paper, students try to, instead, rewrite the paper with minimal changes. A full understanding of how to called “patch writing,” Other teachers, like Roy Stamper, have observed through anonymous blogs with students that students will replace quantity with efficiency if not given enough time. Plagiarism is an issue that can be solved among students, only if teachers grasp the issue and keep practicing with solutions to instill academic integrity while diminishing plagiarism.…
Fialkoff, Francine. "Too Sensitized To Plagiarism?." Library Journal 127.20 (2002): 100. Professional Development Collection. Web. 8 Mar. 2012.…
Upon analysis it is evident that the two articles relate in various ways, yet both the author’s approaches differ vastly. Both agree that cheating “... is a problem on many college campuses” (Blum 1). Perez-Pena explains, “there is evidence that the problem has worsened over the last few decades”(1). They agree that cheating and plagiarism have become more tolerated by society. Perez-Pena claims, “cheating has become easier and more widely tolerated and both schools and parents have failed…”(1). The ways that colleges handle plagiarism can never be totally successful (Blum 1). Both authors agree that there are multiples causes of the problem including parents, teachers, and technology. In Perez-Pena’s article he states more facts…
In Jonathan Malesic’s article How Dumb Do They Think We Are? Malesic discusses the struggles for both the professor and the student when plagiarism is found in the classroom. Malesic defines plagiarism as “not only a sign of dishonestly but also a sign of students’ shamefully entrenched satisfaction with their limitations.” He believes that if his students could recognize the differences from their own writing styles from those of authors they find in their readings, they should be able to write their own papers without the influence of others.…
In the article, The Plagiarism Plague, by Raymond A. Schroth, he brings up a much needed to be discussed topic about plagiarism. Even though plagiarism is wrong, today's society helps spread plagiarism, because high-ranking or famous people participate in it, making it appear acceptable to young people. Today’s young people need to know that is not acceptable and if they choose to participate in it there will be consequences to suffer.…
Chace gives an example of how universities need to look at themselves to fix the problem of cheating in higher education. Chace states, “The most appalling aspect of the rise of cheating on campus in recent times is that some professors themselves have offered sophisticated defenses of plagiarism” (207). Chace then gives the example of a professor supporting plagiarism. Gilbert Larochelle states “Can plagiarism in an intellectual universe where it has become impossible to differentiate the representation from the referent, the copy from the original, and the copyist from the author” (Larochelle 208). This quote is stating it shouldn’t matter if a student cheats, professors can tell regardless. Chace brings up teachers defending plagiarizing to relate to administrators. This relates to administrators because they are the leaders of the staff, and feel responsible for them. Administrators hold professors accountable in the classroom. By using this example he explains how administrators need to do a better job controlling their teaching staff. This brings an emotional tie to the audience. By using Pathos he makes his audience feel responsible for the issues of cheating in universities. This makes the audience look at themselves and their professors and want to do something about it. Chase knows his audience and, because of this, he knows they will take this seriously which will…
Plagiarism is a word drilled into students’ heads from the moment they are old enough to grasp the concept. Again and again, students are reminded how nefarious the act…
In the articles “Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism :a Question of Education, Not Ethics” by Susan D. Blum, and the article “Studies find More Students Cheating, With High Achievers No Exception” by Richard Perez-Pena both talk about cheating and academic dishonesty. This topic is worthy of discussion because it will teach students and professors about cheating and why it happens and how to stop cheating. Perez-Pena and Blum both have similar ideas but they also have a lot of different ideas.…
First, Blum believes plagiarism is a problem on college campuses, and schools are not doing enough to prevent it. When attempting to prevent plagiarism, universities typically approach it as one of two things; either as something as simple as a moral dilemma or as severe as punishable criminal offense(Blum1). This means that plagiarism and academic integrity is a problem with no foreseeable solution that will continue to worsen. Next, Blum expresses that students need more education about attribution in order to prevent plagiarism. The standard methods of teaching attribution to students as a singular concept instead of a learned skill leaves students with a very limited knowledge and understanding of what what the term academic integrity means…