Essays that are plagiarized frustrate teachers
College life: attending classes, taking tests, and writing essays. The dark
side to education is cheating. What’s wrong with
cheating from a university’s point of view? They get paid, what do they care
what students do with their educations? If they care about students getting real
educations, then copying essays and cheating on tests prevents students from
really getting educated. Even if they don’t really care about the students, they
care about their reputation to provide educations. A cheating atmosphere where
plagiarized essays are accepted by educators will cheapen their reputation.
It’s a myth that distance learning education perpetuates plagiarizing
Educators use an arsenal of online tools to help them identify students who
are not writing their own essays but turning in plagiarized essays. Web sites
exist that educators can use to submit essays to check them for plagiarized
passages. One limitation with these sites is that they don’t always distinguish
between a properly cited passage or a sentence that was passed off as original.
Contrary to popular belief, distance learning does not have a higher percentage
of plagiarized essays. While the anonymity and distance makes it easier to have
a culture of cheating, the statistics show otherwise. Educators speculate that
the reason why students in distance learning programs write their own essay is
because students who are using distance learning programs are more mature,
responsible, and hard working (since most of them are adults working full time)
than the wider pool of college students.
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