Response to Scholarly and NPR Story

    The scholarly article "How do High School Students Justify Internet Plagiarism" and the NPR story about music sampling have many similarities. The scholarly article discusses internet plagiarism in high schools involving the students. In the article the author discusses several reasons as to why the students plagiarize. One reason involves the lack of fundamental knowledge in library based research methods. Many students in today's society rely on the internet and the accessibility of it. The author also adds that most students lack the ability to search for books through databases and basic search methods in libraries. The majority of the students interviewed in the article either purchased papers that have already been written off of the internet, copy and pasting, or improperly citing their sources. The author states that many of the students who were interviewed on plagiarizing, claim that there is no clear policy on plagiarism in their schools.
    In the NPR story on music sampling, the focus is very similar to the focus in the scholarly article. Music sampling is discussed between several experts in different fields and what the consequences are for sampling. Sampling is basically plagiarism in music because it means that artists are taking snippets of other artists work and making it into a completely different song. One topic discussed in the program is how copyright laws do not cooperate with the music industry and sampling. This directly relates to the claims of the students saying that the schools do not clearly state the policy on plagiarism in schools. The bottom line for both of these topics is many people have many excuses concerning plagiarism; everyone knows that plagiarism is wrong and there is no excuse for it in any case.