Academic Honesty

Sometimes, being a student is very stressful. We find ourselves busy with sports, homework and just trying to have a social life of our own. With all of these extra activities, it is common that students may feel overwhelmed and think that plagiarizing their work is the only option they have left. http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/page3.html This does not have to be the case. Sometimes, students can plagiarize work without even knowing that they had. Plagiarism is pretty much when you as a writer have quoted or taken an idea from another person’s writing. http://www.engl.niu.edu/comskills/students/plagiarism/Plagiarism.html. This may be unintentional, but the consequences can be quite large. A regular student such as myself could possibly not receive a grade for the work that they wrote. At many schools, including Rhodes University, students can even fail the course they are taking.
http://www.ru.ac.za/library/infolit/plag3.html. As a fellow student, I know that it can be difficult some days to avoid plagiarism. That is why it is always important to brush up on proper citation techniques. Listed below are a few websites that can help explain some of the rules that go along with citing people’s work. The best advice I may have for students that choose to plagiarize is that it should not simply be done. Eventually, all of that dishonesty will show that you never really learned how to correctly do your own work.

http://www.utdallas.edu/~tad035000/Plagiarism%20Tutorial/Textonlytutorial.htm
http://bellevuecollege.edu/writinglab/plagiarism.html