Read Shafer's "Eight Reasons Plagiarism Sucks," and Resnick's "What is Ethics in Research and Why is it Important"? located in the first section of instructional materials above. Do you agree with...

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Plagiarism and Unethical Research
Plagiarism harms writers, readers, as well as the whole journalism profession. I completely agree with Shafer's points regarding the detrimental consequences of plagiarism. For instance, Shafer contends that a plagiarising writer is inclined to copy errors from the work of other journalists (Shafer, 2008). As a journalist is expected to deliver original works, viewers will believe that the plagiarising writer has performed independent research on the subject whereas he has not. As a consequence, readers are misled and stripped of an objective perspective on the issue. Nonplagiarists' articles often never overlap in the exact way that plagiarists' articles do. Plagiarists demonstrate no regard for other authors or the...