Reaction to Lines on Plagiarism

I think there are a lot of reasons students today plagiarize. For one it makes life so much easier. The majorities of students who do it do not get caught and therefore will most likely continue to do it. I agree with the article when it says students feel like since it’s on something like Wikipedia then its general knowledge and belongs to everyone. Also I think because the information is online students feel like it doesn’t matter who said. When doing a research paper students might also think to themselves, “its research, the teacher should know its not from me”. Another reason might be that students after reading something so good cant think of a better way to say it but at the same time dont want to cite everything because then they would have more citations than information.