Plagiarism

Reading through the assignments by Gabriel and Klosterman was fairly informative. I found it interesting how in some of the examples of "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age" by Gabriel that even when the students were called out on their plagiarism they were either oblivious to the offence or denied any knowledge of doing so. There was a student from DePaul University who was called out for copying from the Web. The evidence supporting this was that all the text was in purple, even though it was plagiarism, he only cared about changing the text to black when referred to a tutor! We have spoken much of technology and its effect on learning and education. Much of this technology has been abused and can make it much easier for a student to simply copy and paste text from a document to their assignment. Although I do not believe there should be serious circumstances for plagiarism, there should be some consequence if certain rules are broken. I feel that there are very fine lines between Word-for-Word, Paraphrasing, and Mosaic Plagiarizing, and it can be difficult to differentiate between them unless well informed. Although I think that these differences were pointed out fairly well with the Klosterman examples, legit plagiarizing and legit paraphrasing are hard to differentiate between.