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Plagarism

Plagiarism refers to the presentation or submission of the work of anotherwithout citation or credits, as your own work. Whenever the thoughts, words,drawings, designs, are copied and displayed as your own work this is
plagiarizing. Using others direct quotation or paraphrasing, the author and the
source must be clearly identified through the use of proper referencing. (i.e..,footnotes, endnotes) (Meltzer 2)
The Internet has provided new avenues to plagiarism: Cut-and-paste
plagiarism. This is when you highlight a portion of a paper, then paste it to your own. This procedure is very common and very easy to anyone who has access
to the internet. (Johnston 98) You can also find ...

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students admit to some
cheating. (Follette 87) Students believe that few cheaters are getting caught and those who do, punishments are very lenient. Lower levels of cheating are foundwhere the primary responsibility for academic integrity has been placed in the hands of students, generally through an honor code. (Johnston 201)

Students who plagiarize generally fall into two categories. The first
includes those who have difficulty writing correct, coherent essays. They may
never have received good instruction in writing; they may never have done much
writing; they may not be native speakers of English and have difficulty writing
in English. (Meltzer 119) Whatever the reason, they find that after working long
and hard, they still receive a low grade on their writing. Out of frustration and fear, they may plagiarize an essay, copying it word for word or making only a few slight changes in the wording. (Follette 214)
The second category consists of students who, though ...

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Added: 12/11/2007 07:39:11 AM
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