plagiarism
One of the big concerns of the Administrative Board of schools in the US (and probably around the world) is student’s plagiarism and its consequences for students who fail to follow their academic guidelines. I, for one, is damn terrified of the consequences as it would require the student to withdraw from the course.
I remember that during orientation at my college, the administrative staff made sure we know how to cite properly. For international students who speak languages other than English, we were given additional remarks, not to simply translate for our assignments and claim it as “my paper”.
Nowadays, due to internet networks, the battle is becoming bigger than ever. Information is only a click away. My husband says that there is software that professors use to pint point plagiarism. The software is not able to detect if a person does not plagiarize “word by word”. Thus, it cannot catch anyone cheating by using of plagiarizing ideas or by the method of translation.
So, why am I blabbing about plagiarism? Well, today, I was doing research for my class, and came across an opinion article that looked all too familiar for me. Where did I see it before? My gosh, I saw it at a friend’s blog. Word by word!!! How disappointing was that? I checked the date, and apparently, my friend’s blog was written way later than the opinion article. I was very disappointed that a person that I truly admire was using this for his/her own benefit. I remember when I read my friend’s blog, I thought that person is so gifted—that is to be able to analyze such issue. I will not mention any names. However, I hope he/she will soon realize plagiarism is CHEATING and you can be expelled from Harvard!!! Please stop what you are doing!!!
