Plagiarism is the most critical matter in academic affair. Actually I did not realize importance of it in the school. I didn’t receive appropriate educations about academic misconduct in my all education courses. In my experiences, there are many students who plagiarize other students’ homework and even exam. Since there are no proper educations about plagiarism, the only thing to prevent plagiarism is to depend on students’ own conscience and punishment. It is hard to accuse a student who plagiarized the others’ because he or she is a classmate. I saw many plagiarized work or plagiarizing in my education courses; however, they did not punished because they did not detected. Even their plagiarized works were discovered, they receive light punishment such as warning or resubmission. In my opinion, the most students think it is unfair, but there is nothing to prevent plagiarism for them.
The most important issue in regard to plagiarism is to prevent plagiarism. My first education in OSU is learning about the importance of academic misconduct. In addition, in my 106 course, all subjects which we write about are the plagiarism and the way to prevent plagiarism. I think it is very useful for me and also proper education about plagiarism. I also think all of education institute have to adopt these education courses for new students because new students must know what plagiarism is. I think it is very important to students to prevent plagiarism and fair competition.
The types of difficulties I have in writing are lack of knowledge about vocabularies and paraphrasing. These are connected each other. Because I don’t know many useful vocabularies, I have a difficulty to paraphrase some paragraphs from a source to my paper. If I did not learn about plagiarism in this 106 course, I think I will encounter many critical problems about plagiarism like Marita’s case.