Plagiarism

Plagiarism is where you take someone else’s work and use it as your own without changing it to your sentences and not citing it. There are different types of plagiarism, they are: Ghost writers were you get someone to do your work for you, usually you have to pay a ghost writer, Purloining were you take someone’s work and use it without their permission, and then there is Collusion were you work with someone  and have the exact same thing on it. I think people usually cheat academically because they either don’t know they are or they are lazy and don’t want to do it. There are series consequences for plagiarism, in school they usually give you a really bad grade on it, in college they will either expel you or put your grade down. But when you plagiarize it stays on your application forever and can make it hard to get into college and get a good job. In the video we watched I think Sandra shouldn’t have been expelled because she didn’t know that helping him would get her in trouble and she didn’t know he was copying it word for word.

This plagiarism case was about a guy in the “Young Guns” named Vaughn Ward. He stole Barack Obama’s speech and used it in a political argument. He never joined the congress because of it.

http://www.cracked.com/article_20889_5-insanely-blatant-acts-plagiarism-by-famous-people.html