Cheating

   

 This article entitled "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age" is quite interesting.I never even thought about how cheating is much different in school now, then it has been in the past. This is mainly because of the increase and advancement in technology. Typically, high schoolers are not going to grab a book for there first look at research for a paper. In fact, I can almost guarantee that they will go straight to the Internet. It requires much little effort and is fairly efficient. I am guilty of this as well. I tend to lean more towards the Internet when I am doing research, but I try my hardest to read some print too. Receiving information from the online can most definitely be more tricky then getting it from a book. When it's online, we tend to think we have already heard it before which makes us think that the citation is directly from our own minds. We use the Internet as reassurance or a more detailed description of what we might already know.

 A senior attending Indiana University stated that, "You’re not coming up with new ideas if you’re grabbing and mixing and matching." This is very common in students. It is easy to just pull stuff from different cites and end up only citing one of the sources or just claiming that it was all knowledge from yourself.

 In all honesty, everyone cheats at some point in their life. The majority of people realize that it is not the right thing to do, but sometimes we forget or just simply don't care. Whether it may be copying someone's homework, cheating on a test, or not citing your sources correctly, it's cheating. The best way to not cheat is to avoid it and give credit where credit is due.