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You chose to copy a paper and turn it in as your own work. Here's what might happen:

Stick figure Several OTHER students in your class found the same Internet site, and they turned in the SAME paper. Your teacher received five copies in all. When she asks for an explanation, you must confess to copying the paper from the web site. You all receive a "0" on your paper. Copying someone else's work and pretending that you wrote it is called "plagiarism," and it is a form of cheating.

Think about it:

Would you copy an article from an encyclopedia and claim that you wrote it? It is no different than copying someone else's paper over the Internet. Teachers give research assignments because they want you to learn about something new. When you copy someone's paper, you lose the learning experience you would have had in researching and writing the paper. Using the Internet to do research is not only easy, it is fun! Just be sure that you leave yourself enough time to do it for your next assignment.


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