In my opinion, plagiarism is the saddest from of mimicking someone. When you plagiarize your telling the world that you can’t produce anything you are proud of, or you are not willing to, so you have to copy someone else’s work. Not only is it sad you feel you have to resort to using others work, the person who actually wrote it is being cheated out of their work. Ethics is something that is hard to define, I know what it means and how to use it in a sentence, but it is hard to write out the definition off the top of my head. Dictionary.com says it is a system of moral codes. Plagiarism is ethically wrong. I am not sure exactly the rules in college for plagiarism if you get caught, but I am sure they take it seriously. If a teacher at my high school caught a student, plagiarizing it would be put on your permanent record and you would get a zero. it’s probably much much more extreme in college, I assume you would get suspended or expelled from Baruch if you were found cheating, and if not you would defiantly get a mark on your permanent academic record which would be a huge red flag for other schools or even jobs in the future. No one respects a person who dosnt respect themselves enough to create their own work, something that has never been created before.
