As technology becomes more relevant in the classroom, plagiarism becomes an increasingly attractive option for students. Ethics, especially in college, are slowly decaying as students begin to consistently rely on unethical options such as cheating, more specifically plagiarism. Students should not use their digital resources to cheat because it is not ethical and ruins academic integrity. Students do not know how to differentiate what is and is not plagiarism. In Kumar M. Jagadesh’s article, “Literal and Intelligent Plagiarism: Students Beware!” he analyzes that bad practices in college are taking place and students lean toward plagiarised content. If students are not conditioned against plagiarism, students will naturally begin to copy their peers and other people without…show more content… In Kyong-Jee Kim’s article, “Medical student plagiarism in problem-based learning courses.” the author claims that an increase in copy and paste plagiarism is at rise in college, more specifically, in problem-based coursework(PBC). If PBC students are just using online sources to do their work, then how can society trust these students when they graduate. Online plagiarism is an issue because students are not learning what they need to in order to be successful. In addition, if students do not value their academic standing, society will lose out on important positions. Students experience anxiety due to social standards, and cheating can be a way to stop their issues. In modern schooling, the course rigor is more brutal than it was years before it. The easiest way for college students to solve their issues with school is to cheat. Plagiarism gives students a false sense of accomplishment and even though the task is done, their anxiety still remains because they know that they cheated. Therefore, cheating does not solve anxiety but just makes students lose academic
