Why Plagiarism Is Wrong?

According to "The American Heritage Dictionary", plagiarism is to steal and use the ideas or writings of another person as one's own work (p.540). It is a form of cheating. Plagiarism takes place when someone aims to trick the system, or wants to be a fraud as far as cheating on research papers, or taking people's ideas, using someone else's work and expect to mislead the teachers, and of course there are times when plagiarism takes place and the person has no idea they have done it because they irresponsibly neglected school procedures, and they inattentively forgot to cite their sources where they got the information from, or don't cite it correctly. Appropriate academic course of action should expect that all cited works be recognized by quotation marks, and the source where the ideas or works are coming from. There are some encounters that students are confronted with when writing a paper. Sometimes these encounters can appear like a conflict between what we would see as plagiarism and how to use it so it wouldn't be considered plagiarism. For example we are often trained to acquire a focus on what has already been said and written, but write something fresh and be creative, be original, we are also taught to count on experts' and professionals' views, but expand upon or oppose with those same views. Also acknowledge former student, scholar, scientist, or researcher, but make your own meaningful involvement or impact, and lastly better your English to be accepted into a discussion group by building upon what you hear and read, but use your individual voice, or words. All of these examples contradict each other in some way.

So why is plagiarism unethical? Basically because you refuse yourself the chance to learn and get better at skills you may need in the future whether it's for your career or a speech or your master's degree, it's also wrong because you misleading your professors who are correcting your work, you insult your classmates who have done their own work, you get credited for someone else's work which is not fair to the other individual that has worked so hard to come up with the idea or write the paper, and people will question your honesty.

When these kinds of incidents occur, universities will clearly let you know there is no place for plagiarism in higher education. According to the Student Handbook, scholars that are guilty of plagiarism can expect to be punished, and anyone who helps others plagiarize is equally accountable. "An additional violation of the standards of academic dishonesty within a course may result in dismissal from the University System" (Student Handbook). If caught cheating on a test or exam, student will receive a failing grade and the student will no longer be respected or considered a degree candidate (Student Handbook). Your future outside of the university can be on the line also because plagiarism goes on your