This blog post is in response to an article that was written by Trip Gabriel, "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age". It talks about how students find it easier to copy and paste research papers, instead of taking the time to actually put together a research paper and cite their sources. Excuses have been used that 'there was no author' or 'it's common knowledge', when really, the students are either just lazy or don't know how to appropriately manage their time, leaving them cramming all night, aka copy and pasting, their research paper, that they probably had at least a month to write.
Another problem is that students don't seem to think that plagiarism is a big deal. Obviously, if they thought that there were consequences, then they wouldn't do it. And, if plagiarism isn't strongly enforced, or if the students don't think it is strongly enforced, they why should they spend a lot of time writing a paper and citing all their sources, when they can just copy and paste a paper in a manner of minutes?
Plagiarism is a major problem, and until students realized how big of a problem it is, and the consequences of it, then plagiarism is just going to keep continuing.
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