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For my Iran topic report I used three different citations. The first citation was from a journal article given to our group by Instructor Knapp. One of these citations was from a website with no author. The other was a quote I got from a website on Google that listed direct quotes by Ayatollah Khomeini. All of these citations were necessary to give the credit these sources deserve.

            According to Instructor Knapp, “For a writer, plagiarism is the equivalent of stealing. For a student, plagiarism is cheating. In the Academic world, plagiarism is considered to be: stealing, cheating and lying.” This really stood out to me because it puts it into perspective how serious plagiarism really is. When I think of stealing I think of being robbed of something in my car, home, or bag at school. I have never thought of plagiarism being the same as this but when you take someone’s ideas and portray them as your own; it is just like stealing someone’s positions. Stealing is morally wrong and this class made me realize plagiarism is as well.