After reading Trip Gabriel’s article, I think the main idea is that digital technology has caused a bad influence on students to plagiarize. Having a computer and using the Internet to conduct research makes copying and pasting much easier. Ms. Brookover, who works at a campus library, quotes “everything can belong to you really easily online rather than walking into a library and physically holding an article.” I think plagiarism occurs more often nowadays because past generations didn’t have easy access to computers and other sources of technology. There are also some excuses students make when being accused of plagiarizing. For example, people don’t think they need to credit a source since the page didn’t include author information. I personally think this is laziness because even if it didn’t list any author(s), you can put forth a little more effort to find the author, or include other important information in your works cited and list the title of the author as “Anonymous.” Another excuse is that when students search for information, they can mistake it for common knowledge, thus not crediting the source. I don’t think there are any excuses in plagiarism because going through middle and high school, we were taught the correct way to write papers and also learned the proper format to create citations and give credit to others.
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