If She Can do Why Cant I?

A Definition of plagerism for Maureen Dowds. Plagiarism is the unauthorized use of someone else’s work. Words, ideas, charts and pictures are all considered the creator’s intellectual property and may not be legally reproduced or reused by another person unless that person acknowledges the creator by citing the source of the material.Plagerism has been a big problem for schools, new papers, magizines, and even tabloids. The one common law is that no one can say anothers persons words with out quoteing it. If you are caught in most cases they tell you in high school to rewrite it and make it into your own words. In colleges there is a zero tolerance for plagerism. In New York College of Technology your accused paper is brought to a review board and then if proven guilty worst case is your kicked out of school and red flagged for other schools. Now as an adult not in college or school. Working for a very long time and has had many published articles like Maureen Dowds has there should be penalties for her plagerism. In a New York times article, May 18,2009, there was a correction to Maureen Dowds atricle because she chose not to cite her source. To the accusations of plagerism Maureen Dowds says that she did not know that she had written that same exact paragraph from Joshua Micah Marshall work. She says that she had got it from a friend through an email but she still chose not to credit her friend.This link shows the exact site where the words where lifted. She also refuses to to admit she really did anything wrong. It may have been a mistake but if the tables where turns people would be more angry. There also has to be some blame to the edtiorial staff because if they had done there job better things would not have gotten this bad. Obviously she was in the wrong but they did do there jobs as well. Now her work is going to not get be as much respect as before. I guess for a writter thats enough punishmet. But there where alot more people who messed up here and she should not only be the one that gets the blame. There has to be a bigger punishment so that people dont say “If She can do why cant I?” Then all our work will be screwed.

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