Why Plagiarism Is Bad

Plagiarism is one of my biggest pet peeves. I see people plagiarizing by copying other people’s work down at school. Throughout the years people have been in big trouble for plagiarizing on SAT’S and other important test that shows which college people are qualified to go.

When I was 9 years old my best friend would always cheat off my paper during English class and I would always get in trouble for it. As I got older I learned how bad plagiarism could be and the consequences for it. Copying someone’s published book could also be looked at as plagiarism, if found plagiarizing people could be fined as well.

Everyone look at plagiarism as a crime. I don’t understand why people plagiarize; I think it’s useless and stupid for people to not use their own brain instead of copying off others. The reason of plagiarism I think schools have become stricter when it comes to homework and test. Certain class that I take makes everyone separate from each other as far as possible during test. As I was growing up my mother always told me once a cheater always a cheater. After getting caught cheating on homework assignments some people still think its ok to copy of homework assignments.
Also plagiarizing on the internet is worse than plagiarizing in school because people can be thousands of dollars if caught plagiarizing. This reminds me of a time when my older was 17 working his way up to graduating early his senior year of high school until he decided to plagiarize an essay off the internet, but his teacher found out about it and failed him on the essay. I think plagiarism should be tolerated at