Analysis Of Plagiarism Lines Blur For Students In The Digital Age

In the technological world we live in, where we’re only a click away from accessing the web, with billions and billions of searches to our question, plagiarizing has become easier than before. Plagiarism is the act of taking other people 's work and ideas without giving them credit. This can include any form of cheating. Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age, written by Trip Gabriel explores the misunderstanding of plagiarism by students. It also provide anecdotes and reasons given by different people to why students plagiarize without necessarily choosing a stand. Interestingly, it have been found that students still plagiarize knowing that it is wrong, which contradicts the idea that students misunderstand authorship. Authorship

Dudley offered about students unwilling to engage in the writing process. He states, “... it was students who intentionally copied ― knowing it was wrong ― who were “unwilling to engage the writing process.” I agree with this because more often than not, when students are not excited to write, they would plagiarize to get by. They would aim for the bare minimum to pass and never over because they are not interested in what they are being taught. In addition, they don’t understand the purpose of what they are doing and when that happens, they don’t put the effort into what they are doing. They just know that they have to do it for a grade, but a grade does not mean anything if it wasn’t done by the student. For example, in my middle school, where many students are concerned about just passing rather than actually doing the work to get there, they would plagiarize. These are the same students “unwilling to engage in the writing process.” Students would share their work through google docs to other students in the hope that they can get ideas. But rather than using one student’s work for ideas, the other student would copy and paste it to their own until the teacher catches them.
However, this defeats the whole purpose of school. If students are plagiarizing to get by, not only is there no creativity and originality, but it would not benefit them going on in the real world. It will not teach them how to use their brain to think critically on what they are doing. Depending on the severity of the plagiarism, consequences can vary. Some of these consequences could be getting kicked out of college, losing your position at a corporation or institution and possibly running into the risk of finding employment