Plagiarism

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     Plagiarism, we have all the word but we all know it has always been wrong. With the vast transformation in technology today the word is starting to lose its bad rep to some but not so much to others. It seems that it is so easy to unintentionally plagiarism that some professors just bypass. It is strange to hear that because the norm built in our brains is copying from a website is stealing. But honestly if it isn't tied to an actual author is it really stealing? If I copy a tweet into my writing do I really have to cite COMMONBLACKGIRL.

     This whole article was about plagiarism and how it is a rising matter because technology. Since everything on the Internet doesn't really "belong" to anyone it makes it difficult to cite information especially if it's just common sense. Susan D. Blum explained "...it's OK if you write papers you couldn't care less about because they accomplish the task, which is turning in something in and getting a grade." Sarah Wilensky who is a senior at Indiana University disagrees and explains that plagiarism "does not foster creativity, it fosters laziness."

     I believe in many things. I think that copy and pasting an entire article into your paper is wrong but it isn't if it's just a couple sentences of the article. I also think that no one would even be plagiarizing if we weren't expected to write these crazy expert papers. Not everyone wants to major in a career that requires such fine writing skills so why should we all have to suffer. I also think that if this corrupt education system wasn't so fixated on grades then no one would even think about copy and pasting. If we focused more on learning and less on test scores plagiarism wouldn't even be a thing.