2147483647 Wrote:I question your latter comment because this is not the type of simplicity I'd expect from a teacher. I specifically bring that point out because if anything, teachers should be even more polarized about issues such as this, and thus be even more apt at providing explanations than the common student. Instead, it really appears as though you're preaching out of a Bible. Lay off the morality.
there is really no need to explain. by definition homework is something to be done outside the class with the objective of increasing the knowledge and improve the abilities and skills of the students. if you copy someone elses homework you are not complying with the objective of such work and therefore destroying the end of it. if you dont do homework the way it is intended to be done you are cheating. you are not earning or improving yourself yet you want to obtain a grade according to those who did. this is cheating. though to copy someone elses work and present it as your own is actually called plagiarism, but isnt plagiarism also a form of cheating?
my statement was not a moral standpoint but a semantic one. to copy is to cheat, ther eis no need for more words if you understand what homework means and what cheating means.
Quote:Plagiarism, as defined in the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary, is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."