Monday, September 10, 2012

Rhetorical Precis on Plagiarism


In the newspaper article “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age” (2010), Trip Gabriel asserts that technology has evolved immensely that plagiarism is easily performed.  Gabriel provides several case examples of plagiarism in various prestigious colleges; they all shared the same interest that originality is not of importance to college students and that students have no interest in the creativity and unique quality of writing.  His purpose is to show that plagiarism should be taken seriously in order to give the credit to the original person because Sarah Wilensky, a senior at Indiana University, stated that there are plenty of people who still admire and want credit to their original work.  The tone of this article was very informative; he had various statements and the audience can picture their faces and voices that were spoken.      

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