I think my theory has at least proved true in the media. Here is a scene from the popular sitcom Grounded for Life where Lily plagiarizes a paper simply because she wasn't interested in the topic she was assigned. The same happens to her mother, Claudia.
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I also interviewed a student who knows at least 3 people who have plagiarized in her 4 years at Assumption. Here's that section of my transcribed interview:
Megan: Do you think it would help if there was one class devoted per course about plagiarism and about citing sources correctly? Do you think that would help? Or do you really think it’s just like laziness and people just don’t want to do their work?
Holly: I think it’s really just laziness. I don’t think it would take that long to lay down the basics. I mean, maybe part of a class, but I think most professors do that anyway. They have it in the syllabus and they usually go over the syllabus the first day of class, so as long as they do that then that pretty much clears it up, and the rest of the plagiarism is just people being lazy and just as long as their punished for that I think that will help
I don't know how much more blunt I could get...
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