Plagiarism

The author of “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age” (Aug 1, 2010) is Trip Gabriel, claims that now-a-days with the digital age that it becomes more easy to just copy and paste without even thinking that we are doing something wrong. First there was an instance where a student copy and pasted from a FAQ page and thought that he didn’t need to cite that source because it does not include the author information. There were other cases where coping and pasting off Wikipedia no citation was used because it is “common Knowledge” because it is written and edited by a collaboration of people. She had a few people saying on here that the citation rules should not be getting easier because it is destroying creativity. What I got from the article was that it really needs to be reinforced in middle and high school so that it just becomes natural to cite your source when you take it. This was helpful to look at and I bet it would be for people around this college and high school age so that they can think about it and hopefully make the change so they don’t get in trouble for not citing it properly.