Plagiarism

With so much information available at our fingertips many college students are tempted to commit internet plagiarism. It's as easy as cut and pasting. This is why many college professors use software such as turnitin.com to help them detect plagiarism in student's papers. I definitely agree with Sadler that plagiarism is a serious offense and the offender should be penalized. Hunt, on the other hand, is in favor of plagiarism. Plagiarism is stealing someone else's thoughts and ideas. How is that okay? Part of being in school is to learn to think and create things from our own thoughts and ideas. Sadler views plagiarism as stealing, which it is. Working through assignments teaches students to think and struggle through their own material. Sadler argues that plagiarisms is not only bad for the individual but society as well. As students, we must have the ability to analyze and construct arguments. Plagiarizing teaches the student nothing. Bottom line is, if plagiarism was okay it wouldn't be banned from schools and carry such heavy consequences for offenders.