Plagiarism

The article by Brook Sadler gives ten quick arguments for what is wrong with internet plagiarism.  A couple key ideas for why internet plagiarism is wrong are the issue of copyrights and theft of someone else's property, plagiarism involves the intent to deceive professor's and higher education by using someone else's work.  Plagiarism is unfair to other students because it takes away from their honest work.  Plagiarism is diminishing the students education and in turn teaching them that cheating is ok.  He believes that a strict poicy works best such as failing the course if any assignment is determined to be plagiarised.  Russel Hunt's four reasons to be happy about internet plagiarism gives reasons for which certain practices are threatened by the increasing ease of plagiarism.  He believes that our institutional rhetorical writing environment is challenged by this and it is a good thing and that the problem can be addressed by assuring the students that they are real writers with meaningful and important things to say.  That the institutional structures around grades are challenged which is good because the system that is built makes students only care about marks, credits, and certificates.  By pushing students, he believes that we can break the pattern in students of cheating.  Personally, I agree with Sadler because I think that cheating and plagiarism is wrong because I put in alot of hard work into my school and for someone to get a better grade because they cheated isnt fair.