Hw 7_ plagiarism_ Miguel Olivares

My thoughts on plagiarism are probably the same as everyone else. There’s no excuse for stealing someone’s ideas or words. At the beginning of every semester, we listen to professors talk about the syllabus and put extra emphasis behind the plagiarism rules but nothing ever seems to come of it. Ever since junior high school, i’ve heard students talk about copying someone’s paper or copying and pasting from the Internet but  I’ve never known a fellow student who’s gotten caught plagiarising and who has faced penalties. Part of me thinks that professors are tentative about accusing a student because there’s a fine line between blatantly copying someones work and being influenced by someone’s work.