facts about plagiarism

According to a survey by the Psychological Record 36% of undergraduates have admitted to plagiarizing written material.


A study by The Center for Academic Integrity found that almost 80% of college students admit to cheating at least once.

A poll conducted by US News and World Reports found that 90% of students believe that cheaters are either never caught or have never been appropriately disciplined.

The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next (Free Press, July 1996) states that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989.

A national survey published in Education Week found that 54% of students admitted to plagiarizing from the internet; 74% of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious" cheating; and 47% of students believe their teachers sometimes choose to ignore students who are cheating.

A study performed by Donald L. McCabe titled Faculty Responses to Academic Dishonesty: The Influence of Honor Codes found that 55% of faculty "would not be willing to devote any real effort to documenting suspected incidents of student cheating".When Professor Donald McCabe, the foremost expert in educational integrity, studied over 4500 high school students in May 2001, he found out that 15% had passed a paper taken in large part from a website or from a term paper, 45% disclosed that they work together on their home works, 52% had taken some sentences from a website without specifying the source, and 72% confessed that they do severe cheating in one or more occasion.

As stated by the US Surveys and World Report, 80% of high school students say that they have cheated, 51% high school students said that in their opinion, cheating was not wrong, and 95% of high school students who cheat said that they had not been caught. 75% of college students confessed that they cheated, almost 85% of college students believed that cheating was needed to do well, and 90% of college students did not think cheaters would be detected.

At one time, a work was only protected by copyright if it included a copyright trademark (the © symbol). According to laws established in 1989, however, works are now copyright protected with or without the inclusion of this symbol.

Objective

Today I will research my topic and find 10 facts/behaviors that I would like to
educate my peers about to prevent an inappropriate digital footprint in their future.

plagirism

Works Cited

LaRosa, Christina. Celebrities Behaving Badly. ABC News. June 15, 2007. Web

Steinberg, Paul. Celebrity Gossip and Why We Love It. Enzine Articles. December 11, 2008.

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                  how celebrities mess up. People like to watch celebrities mess up by getting gossip about them, because it shows how the gossip can mess up the celebrity’s career. An example of this is Lindsay Lohan. Because of the bad gossip about her, Lindasy has gotten a bad reputation over the past year. The second reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because it shows how celebrities mess up.

            Most people think that gossip about celebrities’ good deeds, because they don’t find it as interesting. The good gossip is also not really worth anything. Celebrities’ bad behavior is covered more in news stories than positive behavior, because people find it more interesting, it has more value to it, and it shows how the celebrities mess up. 

David Escobedo

Mia Tijerina-Baldwin

ELA

November 3, 2011 

Gossip about Celebrities

People have always been interested in gossip. People don’t care about celebrities’ bad behavior, only the gossip.  The reason why people enjoy celebrity gossip is, because they like to see celebrities mess up. Celebrities’ bad behavior is covered more in news stories than positive behavior, because people find it more interesting, it has more value to it, and it shows how the celebrities mess up.

The first reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because they find it more interesting. People find celebrity gossip more interesting, because people think that listening to celebrities doing good deeds is boring, and instead listening to them mess up is even more entertaining. A good example of this would be Lindsay Lohan ditching her community service. The first reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because they find it more interesting.

The second reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because it has more value to it. The reason celebrity gossip has more value to it, because people would rather buy gossip about celebrities rather than gossip about the good things they do. An example of this would be Lindsay Lohan’s community service. People wouldn’t want to buy gossip that says good things about her community service. The second reason           why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because it has more value to it.

The third reason why people prefer gossip about celebrities is, because its shows

Thesis Statement

                                                            THESIS STATEMENT


Celebrities' bad behavior is covered more in news stories than positive behavior, because people find it more interesting, it has more value to it, and it shows how celebrities make errors.