Writing my plagiarized paper was hard and easy at the same time. It was hard because I wanted to put the article or section I came across into my own words. I didn't want to plagiarize because I knew it was wrong, but at the same time I found it was easy to find the materials I needed to put my paper together. Also I needed to make sure that the paper sounded like it was my voice which made it difficult because when you're pasting different papers together it makes it hard to put it into one voice. I had to change some things and take out some pieces of the contents to make it sound like mine. I also found it difficult to not quote or give the source. I've been used to doing this when using someone's work that when I was finally done writing my paper that I had to take out the quotes then print. I found that it took me a while to copy and paste because I had to still put thought into it and I knew that I had to make it sound authentic. Of course many students with little time wouldn't have done that but this was an assignment and I had time too.
It was easy because it was cutting and pasting. All I had to do was find what I needed and put it into my paper. The Internet can provide me with many articles and also many books online. All I had to do was pick a topic. I decided to pick one that would interest me. I had to brainstorm what else I needed to put into the paper that would make it seem like I did all the work for it. After that all I had to do was find the sources to put my paper together.
So far this class has brought out the morals of writing in me. I know its wrong to plagiarize but I wouldn't mind ghostwriting. I guess I have my own boundaries when it comes to school.
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I agree with you that, so far in this class, what we've learned has helped me understand my own morals, values, and beliefs when it comes to various topics such as ghostwriting and plagiarism. I think everyone has a sense of where they feel it's right to "draw the line", it's a personal decision.
I don't know what kind of plagiarism experience you designed, but I would think the expert plagiarist would cite, quote, and include MLA's as appropriate. Of course they would all be utter garbage. However when I was reading the papers I noticed that a professional-looking work was much less suspicious than a hastily assembled one.
Yeah I had a semi-similar reaction to my paper - I felt more inclined to inject my own words and my own thoughts and opinions into the paper, knowing full well that we are SUPPOSED to be plagiarizing. I know that I read yours, and it was definitely discernible which places were plagiarized, and which were not due to the facts and figures and the definite shift in style.
i wonder what it would be like to "actually" plagiarize - not that I'd like to ever find out. But i would imagine that trouble sleeping would commence right after turning it in.
I may have already suggested this elsewhere (so I will plagiarize myself), but I think a good assignment for this class would be to legitimately submit a plagiarized paper for another class without getting caught. That would add the missing element we all seem to be missing
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