Marney's Blog

This article of “Educators blame Internet for rise in student cheating“ was kind of an eye opener for me. I never realized that people would take whole papers off the Internet and just hand them in to be graded. I can’t believe that people don’t have a conscience when they do this. This would make me feel terrible if I did this because I would know that it wasn’t my work but someone elses.  I do think that in high school today that it is very easy for the kids to plariarse and cheat. Some teachers just get lazy and don’t want to grade the papers or the students are lazy and don’t want to do the work. Many kids look for the easy way out and shortest way. There are so many ways the we can cheat. It’s ridicolous. I think that we need to enforce these rules very much.  I know that it may not be the best thing to teach but it is very smart for the students to know. They will need to use this all through college and in high school. In my nephews grade school; they will not let them copy anything from an article but instead they must paraphrase. I even tried to explain this to him and he really didn’t understand. But I believe that the rules of plagiariasm and quoting must be taught in grade school so that they realize what’s wrond and right.  Also teachers should be taught how to recongize if one of their students works has been plagiarsed.  Once they realize how to do this I believe that much of the plagiarism will stop.