I guess I'm just baffled.
It's so easy to not plagiarize. My research involves education and perhaps people accidentally plagiarize because they weren't educated well enough on the subject. But after interviewing one of the English professor's at Assumption, I don't think that's really the case. Professors usually address the severity of plagiarism in each one of their classes. Furthermore, if they catch a kid plagiarizing by accident, they re-teach their students how to properly cite and give credit to sources.
Even in class last week when we went to the library to do some research, I found out that EBSCO has an option to put the article you found in proper bibliographic format. How much easier could it get?
In general, I'm kind of aggravated that students still cheat. Plagiarism is a moral issue. Just do the work! People would feel better about themselves if they knew that they were capable of getting an "A" on a paper.
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My Magazine Writing class is conducting an investigation on plagiarism and college students. How many people have plagiarized? Have people witnessed plagiarism and let their friends or classmates get away with it? What constitutes plagiarism? This blog will try to answer those questions, as well as react to how the class itself is working. I will explore how the classroom is handling the investigation, both good and bad aspects. What will the conclusion be?
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