Response 2

I can remember back in High School, when a couple of kids got caught for plagiarising on research papers. I can't even imagine why or how someone could result to such a thing. They think its just the quickest and easiest thing to do. It's their easy way out. In the article, Deborah R. Gerhardt has a great question and still isn't really answered. "Why would a top high school writer--so accomplished that she would eventually attend Harvard---commit professional suicide by publishing text copied from another author's popular novel?" If you just think about that one question, all kinds of things pop into your head. Like how could someone steep this low or even why wouldn't let just use a little part of the text and then use in-text citations. This question has me stumped just thinking about it. I could never plagiarize a paper, don't matter how little time or if I need the grade. I just couldn't do it. This is a great article to just remind yourself and ask yourself just one question, Why?