The essay Cutting and Pasting: A Senior Thesis by Brent Staples is about the prevalence of cheating and plagiarism in high school and college. Students tend to view these two academic dishonesty with indifference. Observers brought together some reasons for the prevalence of plagiarism. One which is new technologies that allows access to different sites,another which is the result of declining personal morality and the unavoidable consequence of the pressures students may feel. Schools have responded to the problems by taking actions. One such action is by using turnitin.com to scan students essays for plagiarism. Brent Staples stated that when young individuals think of writing they don't think of making original sentences a complete thought, instead they think of making a collage of found passages from the internet. In essence Brent Staples is posing a question whether parents,teachers, and policy makers can keep the methods through which education at its best teaches people to ...
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