Louis Arens-Plagiarism

For years, plagiarism, or the unauthorized use of an author's work or thoughts has been become very common among high school students.  So many students choose to plagiarize because it makes doing work such as essays a lot quicker and easier.  However, it is also punishable if caught and wrong for many reasons.  For example, an author spends a lot of time and hard work on what they do, and a student copying that work word for word makes the author's work less valuable.  Plagiarism also prevents students from actually learning from their work, because they are just assuming what they are copying is correct.  Two areas of knowledge in which plagiarism is very popular are math and history.  Plagiarism is similar in these two areas because essentially, a student is using another person's work for their own benefit in both cases.  However, they are different because math homework is usually plagiarized when one student copies another student's homework, even though this isn't allowed.  When a student plagiarizes in history, they are usually taking work from a person that they don't know personally.  Instead, work from the internet is copied.  This is even worse because authors put a lot of work into articles that they put onto websites and databases.  A lot of people are paid for their research, but students still take their work for free.