Talk Back to News Story

This was by far probably the worst paper I've written to date. I know it's just pretty much a reiteration of the what was in the book. My intent was to get a large survey together and to make my own story out of it. Unfortunately the circumstances didnt allow for that. I probably should have just changed topics, but to be honest, I didn't know what to write about. I think one of the issues with this assignment was that everyone had to reiterate someone elses article because none of us really have the resources to go and get an "original" story.

News Article Post Write

I feel that this news article is by no means done. I want to try to collect my own data and then make an analysis. I know that this piece is much briefer right now than my usual. I hope to have a second draft posted by tomorrow

News Article

Any search of the phrase ‘plagiarism survey’ pulls up thousands of references to articles and surveys in search of the truth, or as much truth as can be found among plagiarists. There are multiple references to the climbing numbers of plagiarism cases.

According to the article from The Daily Free Press by Grace Lin, Twenty-Five Percent of Students Plagiarize, a survey done online of students from nine colleges showed that 25% of those students plagiarized “sometimes to very frequently.” My initial reaction was that these numbers seemed high and that perhaps the definition of plagiarism was not completely clear. Perhaps what some felt was plagiarism, was not, or vice versa.

As I began to look more into the issue, it seemed that perhaps those numbers were in fact too low. With the advent of the internet, clearly it has become much easier to obtain completed essays and easily appealing articles to use, and the problem has exponentially increased. According to the survey 80% of annual academic misconduct cases are due to plagiarism. All is not lost however, many programs have been developed and protocol put into place in order to assist teachers in catching and reprimanding these students.

The article does not come with a publish date, nor a date for when the study was conducted. I would like to personally conduct an anonymous survey and see if the numbers differ, especially since BCC and Boston University vary greatly in size. I will continue this article once I have obtained my own data.

Essay of Application Talk Back

Sorry that this is late, as I said in my email, I've had some technical difficulties as of late.

The college was Northeastern University, and they utilize the common application, the problem is that they tell you to submit any essay. I simply took it upon myself to write why I wanted to do what I wanted to do. As far as my interest in forensics, I probably should explain more about my decisions originally to pursue that career and why I changed my mind, I will do this in a later draft. I think the reason I didn't explain more in this draft was because I was afraid to do too much story telling. There isn't exactly one end-all explanation.