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Ryan Ward
Mrs. Cramer
College Comp 1
4 November 2020
Plagiarism Essay
Plagiarism is a problem in the United States schools because, students are
plagiarizing others work for their projects, it is getting students in trouble with their
schools, and it effects their learning because they are not learning when they plagiarize.
Imagine going home and doing their homework on their own, because there was no social
media or internet back in time. Kids nowadays go home get on their phones and ask it or
type in the questions then go to school the next day and turn whatever assignment in.
Students rely on the internet to do their work too much; they must think for themselves
and do their work on their own. This is so that they can excel with knowledge instead of no
knowledge at all.
Students who plagiarize and get caught can get into serious trouble. When students
are assigned something in school, they will look up as much as they can when teachers are
not looking. The internet has affected numerous students in a negative way because
students are not learning anything, they are just finishing projects that they do not even
know what they put down and they are calling it theirs. Students not only cheat from the
internet, but when their friends send them pictures of the work. This is considered
plagiarism through the internet as well. Students share stuff with their classmates all the
time to get work done faster, which causes students to fail their test’s when they must work
on their own.
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“Students sometimes struggle getting their jobs that they want for their future”
(Karaoked, 12). They are struggling because of the lack of knowledge for the position.
Students have lack of knowledge because they are plagiarizing each other’s work and not
learning the skills necessary for their future. This is going to cause a struggle for students
who think if I copy, I’ll get it done quicker. This is not true because kids who do that know
nothing come up through whatever program they are in. People often plagiarize that even
when students are applying for jobs, they can see that some students have no knowledge of
what they are talking about. Job owners and managers say that the students coming up are
not working material because they do not have proper knowledge nor experience for the
job. This proves that plagiarism is not going to help students at all in their future.
StudentsStudents mindsets are affected by plagiarism immensely because they are
learning nothing (Silvester, 6). Plagiarism teaches students nothing because they are not
learning it by copying others work. They can copy work from the internet or copy work
from other classmates. Students copy so much now, that teachers can recognize if students
are copying each other. When students copy their brain does not even remember what you
put down for answers. To memorize and learn you must do work on your own. Students do
not realize this until there is something in their face that they will not understand. This is
when student wonder why they lack the knowledge when they got the right answer on the
sheet that copied.
Colleges are enforcing fines when students are caught copy. The colleges are getting
sick of people trying to take the easy way out. Students think it is the easy way out but in
the long run it is not the case because students then lack knowledge for the necessary tasks
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that need done. Now that students are being fined, I think students are starting to realize
that it is a serious matter not something to joke about. Professors are saying that when
students plagiarize, they sometimes see the same answer on most of the student’s papers.
Professors are getting sick of students plagiarizing because they have the right to fail them
if they are caught plagiarizing. There are thousands of students that do it, so some people
do not know what to do with students that why students started getting fined.
In high schools, teachers catch students taking pictures of each other’s work and
searching stuff up. Students will snap pictures of answers to each other so that work will
get done faster. Sometimes students will wait to do their work at home so that one of their
friends can send it to them. Some students go home and google all the answers and go to
school the next day turn it in and call it their work. The problem with plagiarism starting in
high school is, when they get to college it is going to be a real eye opener. Therefore, college
students plagiarize because they started this terrible habit in high school which led some
students to struggling getting their dream jobs. This proves that plagiarism is one of the
worst habits for students to get into.
To conclude why plagiarism is so bad, it is because it is destroying students futures.
Student’s struggle getting their dream jobs because of plagiarism. Most teachers hate to see
students struggle because of plagiarism that is why teachers want students to stop
plagiarizing. They just want students to learn how to do their own work. They want
students to be able to take their test knowing the stuff not just guessing. Students that
plagiarize are starting to fail classes because teachers are catching them and putting zeros
in for their grade. Students are finally realizing a little bit of why it is so important to not
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plagiarize and take their schoolwork into their own hands. The students who are stopping
plagiarism their grade is going up. But the students who still do it their grades just keep
going down. Some places are so bad that governors have stepped in and said stuff about
how students need to stop before the punishments are worse than the fines now. Some
professors have some of their classes in control and make it clear to student that plagiarism
is not aloud. Therefore, plagiarism needs to stop!
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