Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when you copy and paste the exact words of another person's work or opinions. I am sure almost everyone has done this, just to get out of doing an assignment quickly. You should not consider plagiarising because even though you finish your work fast, you will not learn anything about it.

Plagiarism is not allowed in school mainly because it is illegal, also because if you plagiarise someones work, it is not you who is giving the answer or opinion, it is the person's opinion or work you plagiarised from, and this does not help in your learning.

Everyone must have plagiarised at least one time in their life, I know I have, this was not a smart thing to do because I did not learn anything on the topic I plagiarised from. Even though the teacher did not tell me that it was a bad work, I know I did bad because when I had to answer this topic in a test, i did not know anything about it.

How Do You Feel About Essays?

Some common problems that cause you lose marks on your essays are plagiarism, spelling, gramar, sentence structure, formating, not using detailed examples, and not using creative thinking. A good way to make sure you bypass these things would be to research in detail the topic you are writing about so that you completly understand all concepts of it.

I think that I should work on my sentence structure, because I currently learned how to write and read proper english. This affects me because my grammar is not perfect and I lose a lot of marks because of it. Also, proofreading could help me find my sentence structure mistakes, and spell checking could help to improve my marks.