Week 2 Reading Response
This week I chose to do my response on the article on blackboard “It wasn’t me, was it?” Plagiarism and the Web by Danielle DeVoss & Annette C. Rosati. I mainly chose this article because I personally have been accused of plagiarizing, falsely accused but still a scary process. The main idea of this article was to inform people about plagiarism and how some people have no clue if they did in fact plagiarize as they are scared if they did something wrong or forgot to cite a part of their work.
This gif is perfect to my standard because it is showing “homer” as scared showcasing that’s how most students feel when they plagiarize. The content from the article ties back to my major as I currently attend a University. Most universities take plagiarism very serious and can be a daunting thing to hurt your academic record. I have been on the other end of the dishonesty policy and while I was falsely accused, it’s still a very scary thing to go through. Plagiarism is no joke and everyone should be careful to not commit such foul especially in college like UTEP. The article gave me a better understanding on how people think plagiarism works and how people are not sure if they indeed plagiarized. I feel like professors should take the time to inform kids of what exactly plagiarism is and what does not fall under that category. The major assignment we are currently working on should be taken with caution as we are dealing with lots of writing, from scholarly, open and multimodal sources. We want to make we provide the correct citations and not forget to cite valuable things as that can land us in potential trouble. Even though Ms. Cisneros is the best I have no doubt she won’t hesitate to assign a zero as plagiarism is a very serious offense.
I chose this gif because I feel that it shows a sort of punishment comes to the student who decides to copy work without properly citing the original author. Trust me, this punishment is much better than the actual punishments Universities assign. Ultimately, the article prompts me to ask what can we possibly do to inform students on what is plagiarism and what is not considered and how we can encourage students to not plagiarize but to do their own work. Those questions are the ones that popped up into my head when I first read the article.
