Huijun yu
Professor Liz
Hylan 303
18th of September, 2013
Plagiarism
In this fast-paced society, the increase number of people, from teenagers to the workers, cannot live without the digital devices. Of courses, the quickness, the convenience and the easiness are all of the advantages of the digital device. However, there is another problem arose that many people cannot use the citation and forms properly, like Amanda, who lost too much just due to the plagiarism.
American society set up a strict system, which seems to be a little impersonal sometimes, about the plagiarism. But why? Why we should serve the plagiarism such seriously and exaggeratedly? To a certain extent, the opinion or ideas represent one person's wisdom and hard work so that we should shoulder the responsibility to protect everyone's wisdom so that the software appeared. However, from my perspective, I don't think this machine-like method that use the machine to scan every sentences and even every words if they are similar to other materials. In this way, professor can evaluate the writing articles effectively and give them a seemly fair score. In my opinion, the evaluation of an article need to include every aspects, namely extract and developing ideas. In some situation, even though someone do a bad job about one of these aspects, we still need to consider other aspects synthesized. For example, someone fail to use the citation properly, but his developing statement show a excellent performance about that extract parts. In this case, I don't think we should deny this article directly or give it the most serious punishment. Deny the whole thing because of a mistake is not a considerate idea.
Also, the internet is another important factor that push Amanda in danger. As we know, internet in this information age is powerful enough to ruin almost everything. Yes! Amanda did wrong. But is it the action that attack other people, like" silly and stupid", regardless the respect of anybody is correct? It's ridicules ! Others mistake is not the pretence of our mistake. As an well-educated man, we should know not only academic honesty, but also the respect of everybody.
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