As much as we may not like writing papers, I believe we hate researching even more. One lesson I learned after writing for a daily newspaper and the Internet for more than a dozen years is that without facts you have no story.
It doesn't matter how pretty the words are if the content is not there. That's where research comes in. But since some student writers despise research (or more to the point, they despise the time and effort required of researching), they "borrow" what others have written.
Now, there's a right way to quote, paraphrase and summarize someone's work in your paper. It simply takes time and effort. Sorry, no way around that.
In the coming weeks, I'll discuss plagiarism in more detail and add more links to resources student writers can use when working on their papers.
For the moment, check out the Newsreel at the bottom of this blog page. It's displaying real news stories from around the globe on the topic of plagiarism.
After scanning a few of these headlines and stories, you should get a feel for how serious an issue plagiarism is in the real world.
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