Plagairizing is bad…. Students all over the US plagairize every day. They do so to complete papers or homework and some times copy whole papers, put their name on it and turn it in. I recently read an article about a former White House- Correspondent plagairized a news reporter. His name, Jeff Gannon. He was found out by an online blogger who, of course had nothing better to do than to find something bad about someone. Anyway, the story was about how a home-schooled kid and his parents refused to take a standardized test. The name of the news reporter was Melissa Beecher. She was the only reporter at the scene that day; she recalled. Gannon had used quotes that were very similar to those of Beecher. Beecher was disgusted by this action especially becuase he was a White House Correspondent. I cant believe Correspondant Gannon would think he would get away with copying someone elses work; especially today in the information age. This guy is not that smart.
At Cape Fear Academy, where I went to High School, my principle used to be the Head of Technology. So when he started to ‘wear the pants’ he was pretty anal about plagairism. He subscribed the school to Turnitin.com, which is a website that allows students to turn their papers into them first to find out if there are any ’sketchy’ parts of your paper. It took a day for the website to send it back with results. It was a pain in the rear that you had to turn your paper into the website a good 36 hours before the paper was due to your teacher, but I guess it was for the better.
You would think a White House correspondant would know better than to plagiarize. And thats gay you guys had to submit your papers to a website that checked for plagiarism, but then again Cape Fear is pretty gay. And exactly how anal was your principal…I heard rumors1
It’s a good thing that your principal instituted that website to teach you guys the importance of citing other people’s work. Integrity and honesty in your work is essential if you want to earn credibility.