Plagiarism

• Statistically how prevalent is plagiarism on college campuses?
In 2003 the National Survey of Student Engagement conducted a study that revealed that 87% of the students who took the survey online said their peers copied data from the Internet without citing sources at least some of the time.
(http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeV/issue2/article1.html)

• In what ways does technology support plagiarism?
Revealed that plagiarism detection systems such as Turnitin that are routinely used by universities. The software works by extracting text from an essay or assignment and checking whether it matches text from other sources, such as documents available online.
(http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=414881)

• What are colleges and universities doing to fight plagiarism?
According to an article posted on USA Today, professors and college admissions committees are increasingly using plagiarism detection software to detect copied academic papers and personal statements.

(http://www.ehow.com/info_7994370_colleges-doing-fight-plagiarism.html)


• How, or have you been impacted by plagiarism?
I have never been impacted by plagiarism. Committing the act of plagiarism is a risky and immoral crime. I believe in submitting my own work in my own words.

Ethics

People ethics are challenged every day. You tend to see people’s ethics challenged the most in a school environment. In school people like a use others work as their own and cheat on test. In matter of fact my ethics were challenged in school. A friend of mine was taking the same professor as I, just during different semesters. The professor had not changed the class syllabus too much. One thing that did remain the same was the big paper due at the end of the semester. My friend had not I done so well on the first couple of exams and needs this paper to do well in this class. The easy way out would be to just give my friend the paper. But ethically that is not right. After numerous times of my friend trying to convince me to me giving my paper to her, it did not work. Plagiarism is illegal. Because I strongly value my morals and ethics I did not give my friend my paper. My friend will never learn if she does not try for herself. At the end of the day, when your ethics are challenged it shows what type of person you are.