homework: do you agree with the punishnemt?

1. Read the following examples of plagiarism and the action that was taken because of it at one American university. Do you agree with the punishment in these cases? If yes, why. If not, explain why. Write your opinion on your blog
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/vpsa/judicialaffairs/students/plagiarism.cases.htm
I agree with all the punishments that the school gave to the student, because cheating or plagiarism other peoples work are not acceptable, no matter who you are or where you copied from unless you quote it and say where you copied this paragraph from then it won’t get you in to trouble. The last case:

A professor was concerned about a final paper submitted by a student because: 1) the paper did not answer the question that had been posed, 2) the paper covered portions of the book the students had not been asked to read, and 3) several sentences were far from the normal writing style of Stanford undergraduates. After searching the web the professor found at least one of the web sites from which the work had been plagiarized. The student did not contest the facts or the violation. A Judicial Panel held the student responsible for violating the Honor Code.

Sanctions: Two-quarter delay in the conferral of degree and 40 hours of community service


I totally agree. What’s the point of studying if you don’t write your paper of your own? Being a university student you should act like a child anymore, you should behave yourself. If you don’t want to study or write you own paper maybe you should just quit the school and go to work or maybe see if your parents still want to give you money than you don’t need to do anything. I just don’t think there is any reason can be accept for cheating and plagiarism for any works. Stanford University, What are the students thinking? You have the ability to go in Stanford but you don’t have the ability to behave yourself then why go in? I don’t know. I just felt that a great school can’t except a bad behave student epically cheating and plagiarism other people’s work. It just hard to believe that a good school student needs to cheat or plagiarism other peoples work, just like the professor in Columbia, she plagiarizing passages from the work of three former students and colleagues, I really don’t get it what is her motive of doing it.

If you don’t have the ability to do the works of your own maybe you just need to think about of quit or study harder. No need to cheat or plagiarizing other people’s work, it will break your own reputation and it’s not worth it.