Plagiarism Epidemic

This is a response to Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age by Trip Gabriel. Gabriel talks about how students now don’t see a problem with copying a passage off the internet and passing it off as their own thought in a research paper. That this is a growing epidemic throughout colleges in the U.S. the lines blur because doing research and finding material on the internet seems different to most people because some of the information they find doesn’t list an author so it seems to them that no body really owns it and it is up for grabs by anyone. That as opposed to actually putting some work in and finding a book with real pages in the library that has a listed author that needs to be cited in their papers.

Another thing that this article hit on a little bit was that plagiarism can lead to laziness with the increasing amount of information that is available through the internet. I think that is very true for all aspects of technology especially dealing with plagiarism. With the increasing amount of information available at the figure tips of most students, they see it as an easy way out not to do the leg work that needs to be done off their couch and away from the video games. I think to avoid this, plagiarism needs to be looked more forcibly upon and push the students to get off their butts and get out to a thing called a library, that most people never really get to see anymore.