The Summary of "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Student in Digital Age"

     In the article "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Student in Digital Age" by Trip Gabriel, he states that students this day in age do not realize that using other peoples words that they did not write are wrong. Using the internet makes it easier to copy and paste a piece of writing into an essay. There is information on the internet that anyone could use these days.
     In many surveys between the years 2006 to 2010 by Donald L. McCabe; a co-founder of the Center for Academic Integrity and who also is a business professor at Rutgers University, he found that 40% of 14,000 students confessed to plagiarizing. Today only 29% of students think that plagiarizing is serious; earlier it was 34% of student who thought that.
     Gabriel included information from many people and their thoughts on plagiarizing.  Susan D. Blum; an anthropologist from University of Notre Dame. She said that students do not care about creating their own pieces of work. Students rather put down an idea of someone else’s work and hand it in to get it graded. Helene Hegemann a German teenager wrote a best-selling book. Ms. Hegemann said that originality doesn't exist anymore only authenticity. Sarah Wilensky, a student from Indiana University, said that plagiarism creates laziness. There is no creativity with forming your own thoughts. A person is just taking pieces here and there and making them make since. On the other hand, most students, artists, and authors do create their own original work. The real reason why students plagiarize is because high school does not prepare students for college. She says that if you can read and make since of a piece of writing them you will not plagiarize.
     Many students have plagiarized. Some did not know that they were doing so. Other students knew that they were plagiarizing. Those who knew that they were plagiarizing knew it was wrong and did not want to follow the writing process. In one case a student was called down to the disciplines office because of plagiarizing. The parents came to the meeting along with the students. The father said it was his fault that his daughter plagiarized.