Plagiarism
...fellow student during an examination (presuming the copied work isn’t attributed). Plagiarism and cheating are not the same; cheating takes many forms, including but not limited to deliberate plagiarism. Plagiarism is neither a criminal nor civil offense. In fact, plagiarism is not a legal term and is not legally recognised, but plagiarism may result in expulsion from a school or program of study, particularly in universities or colleges. Many students who use sites such as planetpapers.com to “gather research” - steal other people’s ideas and papers. It is so amusing that people could be so naďve and lazy. Think about it: in high school, you are already expected to know whatever material you’ve been taught (hopefully). If you cannot get through high school without cheating, how well will you do in college? Professors check whether you have cheated, and you are required to write lengthy papers based on detailed research, which is not present on many Internet paper mills and notes sites. If you cannot read, write, and think on your own, you are doomed. Maybe not now, maybe not during your high school career, but eventually, you will flunk a class or get expelled for cheating. If your job requires you to write essays or gather information, and you “cheat” (gather information without citing it and getting permission) you will be sued and fired. During high school and college, you are more likely to hurt your grade than to get into serious trouble. (However, if your paper sounds too well written, or if a teacher finds that you stole information, you can still be expelled.) Let’s face it: Cliffs Notes aren’t the Holy Grail of research. If you read Cliffs Notes or Monarch Notes or planetpapers.com' essays, you are bound to miss important details. Any decent teacher will check whether you read a book, and to do so, h...