Rhetorical precis for anti-plagiarism strategies...

In Suzana Cismas article, "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Environment Engineering Students", she provides many interesting statistics taken from various surveys. Suzana Cismas explains how students don't view plagiarism as cheating but rather as taking advantage of technology. She also goes into the different types of plagiarism, clarifying that not all plagiarism is intentional. A student could simply make the mistake of paraphrasing and not changing the original text enough, or by changing it too much. The student may have just taken incomplete notes and unknowingly copied someone elses work onto their paper without proper citation, not even realizing the seriousness of the issue. There are however different methods a professor can use to keep the students academically honest, and to monitor the students writing process. A professor can simply have the student turn in pieces of the paper before the final draft, such as a rough draft, bibliography, outline, or a thesis statement. With a record number of students plagiarising papers every day new methods and detection software must be produced in order to discourage the trend from becoming any worse than it already is.