“Perhaps the relationship between the Internet and the perceived rise in plagiarism is not so much one of writers’ disease and textual promiscuity as it is of readers’ access to the plagiarized texts. It is from this logic that online plagiarism-detection programs are derived: If unethical writers have access to text online and plagiarize from it, then gatekeeping teachers can also access the plagiarized text and catch the offenders.”

“Understanding Internet Plagarism,” makes me chuckle when I read this. This essay allows readers to see into plagarism and even adds a little humor on the topic. Plagarism has been around for ages, even back when Shakespeare supposedly stole his work from another source. Now many teachers are using plagarism detection programs to sort through their students work to determine if this the work is done by the student and only done by the student. The essay shows how you can simply buy an entire paper online for a particular fee and how people think they can get away with it. This detection programs can put phrases into the program and can pull up where students have plagiarized from.

I cannot believe that students are still trying to buy papers online and think they will not get caught. I remember years ago when students in my English courses in high school were buying papers online, and teachers then had access to this special detection softwares. You would think after all of these years, people would actually realize how technology is constantly increasing and plagarism is much easier to detect. Schools constantly discuss plagarism in schools and even have the topic of plagarism in most school’s handbooks, so why are students still doing this? I guess we will never totally understand this answer, but I feel it is laziness and some are just looking for a way out and feel they will never get caught. Think again, cause you will get caught!