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"College Plagiarism: Easy to Do, But Getting Harder to Get Away With” Journal Reflection 

I chose to write a journal reflection on this reading selection because college plagiarism is truly plaguing students everywhere more and more each day. So I decided that it would be fun to see what another person’s view on the plagiarism topic that has already been through college and experienced what other college students are experiencing. 

In Burton’s essay “College Plagiarism: Easy to Do, But Getting Harder to Get Away With” she writes of how plagiarism is plaguing students more and more every day. Burton starts her essay with a scenario that a student went through, when he was contemplating plagiarized. And she throws all the right ingredients that lead a student down a road that leads to plagiarism, such as it being very late, the student trying to cram in the essay at the last second, and how easy it looks to just copy and paste. These are all great example and great evidence that supports her research on plagiarism. However I believe the strongest piece of evidence is when Burton cites and uses “The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers” to show how they believe that plagiarism is qualified as “double-dishonesty”