Response to Gerhardt's "The Rules of Attribution"

In "The Rules of Attribution" by Deborah R. Gerhardt, Gerhardt emphasizes how plagiarism is abused and wronge. The main point Gerhardt is trying to make is that plagiarism is everywhere in our world today, our elders should be the ones to be able to teach us the rules of writing, so we as students can go out into the world and not be tempted to commiting plagiarism because we would know that it is wronge. She gives an example about a smart women by the name Ms. Viswanathan whom she claims did not deliberatly plagiarize but evidence claims she has. Ms. Vismwanathan was accused of plagiarism after evidence proved she read two of Megan McCafferty's books and her passagers were very much similiar to Ms. McCafferty's. Ms. Vismwanathan was never taught the rules and aspects of writing so Gerhardt claims it really wasn't her faught. If she was taught the rules, this problem wold have never came about because she would have never plagiarized. The bottom line Gerhardt stresses is to teach our young people about plagiarism because it is a very serious issue in our world today. For example Gerhardt states " It is very unfortunate to see a promising young writer taken out of the game because she did not understand the rules." I believe as a student we are tempted to plagierize everyday. We have to write papers almost everyday and whoes to say those lazy students aren't just going to copy and paste from the internet and be down in less then an hour. Now i see how plagerism is delt with in our everyday lives of students but can alse agree it is wronge and its something we should stay away from. Gerhardt also states that the internet is a very easy way to plagerize now and days because of how our technology as explanded. It is so easy to just copy and paste and be done your paper. There are differences between intentional and unintentional plagiarism. And its good to ask yourself: was this intentional or not before you hand in your paper.