PLAGIARISM IS THE END OF CREATIVITY
Trip Gabriel in His Informative writing on Plagiarism called “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”(8/1/2010) argues since the beginning of the online era and the vast amount of information at the hands of the public, Plagiarism is becoming more popular in undergraduates and the colleges are letting it slide by. Trip explains that in a survey given by the Rutgers University, 40% of 14,000 undergraduates, admitted to plagiarizing at least once in their academic career. Due this intense amount of numbers given by the survey the Education committee decided to crack down on this progressively growing problem and in a later study revealed that after the disciplinary action given by the University, the percentage dropped from an average of 39% to 29%. In this article, the author is attempting to show his audience that plagiarism is all around us and with information becoming easier to obtain through online search engines, Universities should crack down harder on this massively growing problem. The author is also stating that with the rise in plagiarism, that the students today are lacking the urge to be creative and create something original like that people from the 60’s they are copying off of to obtain a better grade. This common rant about how creativity is being lost to the Internet should be a message to all schools that plagiarism should under no circumstances be tolerated or allowed to slide. People today are losing their creative brain to the education system. If the students today stop applying them to the free write assignments given by their teachers, then the education system will have won. This article should be heard by all Universities and as well as all people who have or plan on plagiarizing because they should see that what they do is wrong and not only helping the education system help turn us into a assembly line of mindless freaks, but they are letting the population down because although it is easier to copy and paste, what you write could mean the difference in changing someone’s life or opinion on things.
Trip Gabriel in His Informative writing on Plagiarism called “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age”(8/1/2010) argues since the beginning of the online era and the vast amount of information at the hands of the public, Plagiarism is becoming more popular in undergraduates and the colleges are letting it slide by. Trip explains that in a survey given by the Rutgers University, 40% of 14,000 undergraduates, admitted to plagiarizing at least once in their academic career. Due this intense amount of numbers given by the survey the Education committee decided to crack down on this progressively growing problem and in a later study revealed that after the disciplinary action given by the University, the percentage dropped from an average of 39% to 29%. In this article, the author is attempting to show his audience that plagiarism is all around us and with information becoming easier to obtain through online search engines, Universities should crack down harder on this massively growing problem. The author is also stating that with the rise in plagiarism, that the students today are lacking the urge to be creative and create something original like that people from the 60’s they are copying off of to obtain a better grade. This common rant about how creativity is being lost to the Internet should be a message to all schools that plagiarism should under no circumstances be tolerated or allowed to slide. People today are losing their creative brain to the education system. If the students today stop applying them to the free write assignments given by their teachers, then the education system will have won. This article should be heard by all Universities and as well as all people who have or plan on plagiarizing because they should see that what they do is wrong and not only helping the education system help turn us into a assembly line of mindless freaks, but they are letting the population down because although it is easier to copy and paste, what you write could mean the difference in changing someone’s life or opinion on things.
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