Why do students plagiarize?

– Empire Essays
Short Report:Put an End to PlagiarismIn 2002, a high school teacher in Piper, Kansas,
resigned after the local school board ordered her to raise the grades of 28 students who had
failed her course after being caught plagiarizing on a semester-long research project
(Hartman 55). According to the teacher, the students had been warned about the
consequences of plagiarizing and deserved their failing grades (Hartman 56). Many parents
felt differently, however (Hartman 57). They said their children didn’t realize that copying
information from the internet was plagiarizing, and that the penalty for their ignorance was
too harsh (Hartman 58).Whatever the facts, the case dramatically illustrates a problem that
has become increasingly common with the growing use of the internet in our nation’s
classrooms. According to Plagiarism.org, studies indicate that approximately “74 percent of
[high school] students admit plagiarizing at least once during the past school year”
(Plagiarism.org). In addition, a study conducted by Rutgers University researcher Donald
McCabe found that more than half the high school students surveyed had used material
copied from the Internet in research papers (McCabe qtd. Hartman 48). Fifteen percent said
they had turned in reports copied entirely off the Internet – or purchased on the Internet
(McCabe qtd. Hartman 49).Why do students plagiarize? According to Robert Harris, the
author of Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers , students plagiarize because they
want to finish the work in the least possible amount of time, because the work is not a
priority for them, because they procrastinate, because they have poor time and work
management skills, and because they have no confidence in their own writing abilities.
Some students, of course, plagiarize because they can, and others really don’t know
they are plagiarizing.Works CitedHarris, Robert. Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research
Papers. Houston: Random House, 2010.Print.Hartman, Patricia. “Student Confusion on
Plagiarism.” Academic Strategies Revised. New York:Palgrave, 2012. 48-60.
EBook.Plagiarism.org. “The Plagiarizer’s Mindset.” Plagiarism.org. Web. 20 Nov.
2015.Exercises1. What is plagiarism?2. What does it mean to recycle writing assignments?3.
Go to the course syllabus. Explain the policy on plagiarism & recycling.4. Find the sentence
that is plagiarized in the passage. In other words, find the sentence that needs an in-text
citation. Provide a possible in-text citation for the sentence that is plagiarized.5. Choose a
sentence in the passage. Rewrite the sentence & and intentionally plagiarize it. Explain how
you plagiarized the sentence. Explain why it is a plagiarized sentence.Thesis & Reasons
ExerciseReminder: This writing assignment, like all others, is subject to SafeAssign.
Plagiarism will not be tolerated; “I didn’t know” is not an excuse. For more on plagiarism,
please see the course syllabus and your RLC Student Handbook.Note: Use your critical
thinking skills. The answer should be your OWN answer and not a regurgitation of
something you found on the internet. You should know how to answer these questions after
you review and take notes on the required course materials.Thesis Statements From
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overall argument) the video ad makes?Answer:What are 3 reasons that the ad makes to
support the thesis statement?Answer:ReasonsWrite three reasons to support the following
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and three reasons to support your thesis statement.Answer: