Yep, That's me right now... Got a couple of hours until class tonight and I have no idea what I want to write. I read most of your post today and now I don't know if what I am thinking is mine or maybe it is your thoughts... Anyway, this post is supposed to be about Plagiarism and Cheating. I bet I can cover both of these well if I just give it a shot.
You all seem to know the definition of Plagiarism much better than I do, I actually learned a lot from just reading your post. For example, never and I mean NEVER copy one of "The Fit Fool's" papers... You will get nailed for sure!! But seriously, I really didn't know that re-using information from one paper to another was a bad thing. I always thought that it was ok. I mean why redo the research when you know you just did it for that paper you turned in for a different class?.... and got an A on by the way. Something smells a little fishy here... I think all of research publishers and the Scholars got together and decided college kids had too much free time on their hands and were having way too much fun with the money they were earning at their part time job. So they decided to make some rules that would drive sales of research stuff and cause those college kids to go deeper in debt and even take working hours right out of their paycheck. I can't prove it but you have to admit it seems a little fishy...
Cheating is the second topic of this post. My thoughts are that if it is truly a life or death situation, If you ain't cheating then you ain't trying hard enough. Any other time (other than tax time) it's just bad character
