The night before an exam or the night before a huge paper is do, asking your friends for the answers to the test, or copy and pasting large paragraphs off a website might seem like a good idea, but when you are no longer under the pressure and are able to think clearly, it then can be seen that this is a bad idea. During class today we discussed how the idea of ethics and morals are based off a lot of things: religion, morals, elders, laws, government, society, your conscience, your upbringing and more. In my mind all of these have been combined and I have strongly learned and understood that plagiarizing is wrong. Then when I arrived here at Clemson, they too had their policy about what would happen to you if you cheated. I am here at Clemson because I would like to get a solid education so that I can continue onto find a good job or to graduate school. Risking my success that I could have here but cheating for one assignment does not seem worth it. I would also have to break the news to my parents saying that I have been kicked out of school for something like plagiarizing. All of the trouble that plagiarizing would cause just does not seem worth it for me.
And so, I Marina Scanlon, promise that throughout this course I will not plagiarize for assignments or in any way cheat off of anyone else. By doing this I will respect the professor, myself, and Clemson University as a whole.
Marina Scanlon
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