Plagiarism Workshop 3/18

1. 0, it is not plagiarism. The two papers are completely different so as long as each of the students cites their sources, no plagiarism occurs.

2. 0, it is not plagiarism because it is the writer's own work.

3. 2, it is a small form of plagiarism. While the student did not use any of the other students' exact work, he still used some of their ideas to form his own.

4. 4, The student did not do all of the work by himself. He used another student's work as a template for his own work. It's a form of plagiarism because he took part of another student's assignment and used it for his own assignment.

5. 1, it has the potential to be considered plagiarism. According to Owl at Purdue, you can cite pictures. The example does not mention whether the student cited the picture or not, and also the teacher did not accuse him or his classmates of plagiarism.

While plagiarism should be taken seriously, we think that the consequences for plagiarizing are too harsh most of the time. We believe that expulsion should only be a possibility if plagiarism occurs more than once by the same student. We think that students who plagiarize should be given a 0 on their work, and have some other kind of consequence as well, but we think that expulsion is not necessary on the first accusation.

Anna Jones

Lauren Smoley

ENC 1102-112