Oh Man!! "Who has Copied Now?"

Plagiarism had become such a common "technique" that both high school and college students have been participating in. According to my own definition, plagiarism is taking someone else's work and identifying it as your own. Through research, I have come to find that many students do not mean to plagiarize because many of them to not know that they are doing it until a teacher or a fellow classmate points it out to them. In both the high school and college classroom, a teacher should be able to make a distinction between both intentional and unintentional plagiarism. More teachers are moving towards technology to help them guide the way they grade papers. Turn It In. com has become a well-known website that some teachers are using to identify if students have plagiarized or not. In my opinion, this type of detection can be effective for teachers, especially for me as a future educator. Teachers should do their best to teach students the correct way of writing and the proper way to cite, which brings me to my next point. Students should be familiar with the common knowledge, referring to known facts such as when the country was set set free, or who was our first president. In my own definition, students should know the babies. Many would then question, does stating the common knowledge, a way of plagiarism? Well that is when your own answer comes into play...