i cant live without plagiarism, how about you?

Question

i plagiarise like 98% of my work. I never got caught, NEVER will

Answer 1

Plagiarizing sucks. You can live without it, its just easier for you to live with it. Your teaching yourself bad habits for the future, in the aspect of searching for easy way outs even within breaking rules. You're definately not the only one that does it, but it still doesn't make it right.

Answer 2

The interesting thing is how many students these days believe plagiarism is not wrong. The whole point of exercises, whether they are written papers, drills, or projects, is (a) to "drill" into your head the facts underlying the subject matter, (b) increase your own critical thinking skills, (c) improve your writing skills. Plagiarism hurts you most of all, because those skills, especially (b) and (c), aren't developed. It doesn't matter whether you think you'll never "use" a particular set of knolwedge again in the specific sense (What were the causes and effects of the Teapot Dome Scandal? How do you calculate an antiderivative?) but what matters is that you won't develop critical thinking skills, time management skills, organizational skills, and most importantly communication skills. Those tools, along with the "baseline" knowledge provided in high school or gen ed. college (like how to be a good citizen, how do to simple math, understanding the physical and natural world) are what school is all about.
Of course, on a moral side, plagiarism is just another form of lying. It destroys moral character, rejects any personal ownership in your work, and transforms your ethical world view from a "democratic," personal ownership model, into a mere efficient -- do-what-it-takes-to-get-the-job-done-fastest ethic. As there are fewer and fewer thinkers in our society, and more and more liars, our society simply won't be able to compete with others in the global economy. As a result, crime rates could increase (stealing is faster than earning), and GDP may decrease, militarism will increase (as resources become scarce). Most important, however, is the fact that democracy thrives on an educated, involved electorate. As laziness and ignorance increases (as we have seen since about 1970) about our political system, the public becomes much easier to control with propaganda and pure emotional appeal. Then, even if there are "elections," democracy disappears. This, of course, is happening right now, and it is only getting worse.

Of course, I don't want to say that copying a paper on Abraham Lincoln will bring down the Republic, but the harm done by such an act extends just beyond the "cheating" act. Please think about that next time you choose the "easier" road.

Answer 3

PLAGIARISM is a SERIOUS OFFENSE!

Especially in academia, and with the work of writers. What you plagiarise took a dedicated student HOURS and HOURS of work to create.

I hope for your sake that you are in high-school and not college. BTW, in college you risk suspension/expulsion and flunking the class. You WILL get caught. Its a matter of when and not if.

Frankly, I hope you do get caught. I hope one day you do enough of your OWN HARD INTELLECTUAL WORK, that you begin to RESPECT THE INTELLECTUAL WORK AND PROPERTY OF OTHERS!

You brag about it like its some cool feat. Like you've proven you're smarter than the people you plagiarize. All you've done is shown your own immaturity.

You know, plagiarize the wrong thing, and you could wind up legally fined (that would be the usual legal recompense for plagiarism. You see, authors tend to dislike their work being taken by others, and they tend to do things like get lawyers when they find out it has been) from here to Texas. If you won't listen to reason, respect the intellectual property of others, maybe MONEY will talk to you and make you listen!

Answer 4

I dont believe that you should intentionally copy things.
You might just find that if you try to create something original it will make you feel proud.
It is of course considered OK to get inspiration from things.
You could try taking a few things and seeing if you can put them together in a new way.
I agree with hotbodydiva in the way that i think you should try to be original enough to come up with your own ideas ans styles.

Answer 5

Duffus!?!

Obviously you are not the smartest person in the world because if you were you would USE your own ideas instead of others! Plagiarize that!!!!!!!

Answer 6

i can't live without plagiarism, that is a fact
i plagiarise a lot of my writing. hope i don't get caught

Answer 7

I never did that for various reasons, but I'm sure that if I ever tried, I'd be caught. I have bad luck like that...

Answer 8

LMAO!!! Me too man, but what i do is copy the statement and then use the theasuarus (sp??) to change some of the words...works everytime!

Answer 9

everybody plagiarizes to some degree, I agree 110%

Answer 10

Then you pull from sources that are just obscure enough to avoid detection. or you are good at what you do