Sadler explains how Internet plagiarism is wrong because
there are many wrongs in doing so. She talks about how plagiarism can affect
the people in school such as professors and the fellow classmates in ones
class. Plagiarism affects the students by not doing equal amounts of work as
others in the class. Mostly plagiarism is seen as unfair to students and
professors. Plagiarism abuses the rule of academic honesty, which gives other
students the reason to do the same. Hunt explains how many students do this to
follow the rules of every teacher. Students have many different teachers, which
is not surprisingly teaching their own way. Internet plagiarism is used to satisfy
these teachers. Overall most students use plagiarism just to keep up their
grade and that’s what most students aim for therefore its ok to cut some
corners some times. Overall they do enough research just to get the grade they
deserve. I believe Sadler had a much stronger argument because she provides
much more reasons and the fairness of not plagiarizing. Some students do try
much harder than the ones who plagiarize and are unfair to some students. I
believe plagiarism is not a bad thing if you know how to use it. As long as you
are able to understand the text there should be no reason why you cant use it.
Plagiarism is unfair to other students. Like you said, if you are able to understand the context, then there is no reason why you should not be able to write it. It is extremely unfair to those students who spend hours on their paper, and then other students who plagiarize are done in a shorter amount of time. Also, if the teacher curves the grade, then students who plagiarize usually gets a higher grade. Overall, I think plagiarism should not be tolerated and consequences should be handed out to those who do it. Higher education is not meant to be easy, so even if we struggle with the material we are learning, cheating isn’t the way out.
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