Friday, April 20, 2012
Plagiarism in College
Plagiarism
is an issue that has become a bigger problem in the last few years. This is
mostly because of the easy access to the internet and information. College students have been seen using
plagiarism the most and arguments on whether this is good and bad have risen.
Brook Sadler argues that plagiarism is wrong and how it negatively affects the
student. She states that during plagiarism the student does not actually lean
what the professor has intended and that the idea of higher education is jeopardized.
On the other hand, Russell Hunt argues that plagiarism is beneficial. Hunt states that students do not always need
to write their own work because it will not help them in real life. He also
explains that by plagiarizing students learn how it really works. I believe
that Sadler has a better argument. She has stronger argument points and
information to back up those points.
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I do not necessarily think that Russell Hunt was arguing that Internet plagiarism is good for students, but that the educational system should be reexamined so that students value their own work. He was emphasizing that students need to be taught to be proud of their own work and to want to learn the material. Hunt was explaining that students need to be taught not only the material, but the importance of research and intellectual enterprise of scholarship. I think the focus should be shifted over from awkwardly teaching how to avoid Internet plagiarism to having students not even consider it.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these Professors have good points. On one hand I agree with Sadler’s arguments but on the other I also agree with some of Hunt’s arguments. I do agree that college students don’t get all they can out of education if they are copying off someone else’s work. They are not learning what the teacher wants them to learn because they are not using their own ideas and thoughts. Hunt makes a good point about students not writing their own work because they won’t need it in real life. There are many papers I have had to write that I feel are completely useless to me and have not taught me anything I will need to use when I get out of school.
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