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Originally Posted by underGRADFlame
Hey by no means do I think it's right. I was a typical kid looking for a easy way out of writing a paper, I just thought I would add something to the thread. I know my senior year in HS I was helping the teachers source stuff like that so it didn't happen, I just joked with my teachers not to go back and check my work from 2 or 3 years previous.  |
Yeah--I hear what you're saying. It's not a super-sore subject for me, because I've only caught a total of about 7 people over the years. I know people who've had far bigger problems with it--and one difference is assignment design--it's a little bit harder to plagiarize my assignments. I'm realistic, though: I know I've probably had lots of students get away with it, in part because I'm too lazy to do all that checking.
Research has shown that about 1 third of undergraduate work improperly uses sources, and that some portion of that is out-and-out plagiarized. That's an alarming statistic to me--as if there is a pattern of people not knowing that it's wrong.
To me, catching people who do it is not enough--you have to teach people to decide for themselves that plagiarism is wrong by appealing to their moral sense. Fear of repercussions will never be enough by itself.