Copy Cop is an article on a man who has created an internet based engine to eliminate cheating among high schooler and students in college. iParadigms works very simply; the students upload their papers electronically to the site, where is scans and marks any copied parts. It runs each paper against 3 databases. The first is one that it compares it to every internet site; the second is books, encyclopedias and even the classics like Moby Dick. The third is any paper that has been turned into them since day one or operation.
I am not against teachers using this program. Why should kids get recognition for something they didn’t do? As Barrie said its “making sure all students are playing by the same set of rules”. Ever students should be graded equally so the work they turn in should be based on their own skills, not a stranger. Plagiarism is not okay!! It is perfectly acceptable to use information from someone else if you give that person credit for it. Using quote from a person, and work cited paged can greatly prevent plagiarism. I think the punishment for plagiarism should be a zero for the assignment and some sort of harsh punishment like detention for kids in high school and having to partake in some undesirable activity for college students.
In my opinion institutions take this so seriously because they don’t want students to get grades for something they didn’t do. If a medical student is assigned a paper on the biology of the human body, and turned in someone else’s work, would you want them to end up being your doctor? I don’t know about you but that’s a without a doubt no on my part. That’s why I think institutions are so harsh on the subject. For Stetson University the punishment for cheating in an automatic failure of the coarse and then you must appear for student’s court. Other high level students will judge you based on your records at Stetson to see whether or not they want to expel you. Cheating can cause loss of scholarships, participation in athletics, and other consequences.
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