A THREAT FROM PLAGIARISM

We have this joint project in our Computer IV class and English IV class which is called “cyberfair”. To give you a clue, we are joined an International web designing contest. We were group by four, others by three and some are two. Each group is given two places to research on, the researchers need to go to the place and research through personal interviews, get pictures and other facts they could extract from the people on that place. Now we were warned by our English teacher Mr. Montejo that if we wish to research on the internet we need to revise or to paraphrase the statement and still acknowledge the source to avoid a charge of plagiarism.
One afternoon, while the Public Speaking class of Mme. Hermosa is in the LEADER having the activity “read speech”, Mr. Montejo rushed in the room and murmured something to Mme. Hermosa, everybody just thought it was nothing and so the speaker on front continued delivering his speech. And after the student speaker delivered his speech, Mme. Hermosa announced to the class that as soon as the Practical Law class arrive in the LEADER, we will stop and will have a batch meeting. It was kind of puzzling because it was not scheduled to have a batch meeting on that day, anyway, the Practical Law students arrived also puzzled. Mr. Montejo stood in front of us and announced that he is afraid that our batch might not have a one hundred percent graduate because of Plagiarism. He said that two groups plagiarized an article from the internet and never even cared to paraphrase and acknowledge the source. Everybody was shocked, as if everybody was guilty that the group that Mr. Montejo was referring to was their group. Our group wasn’t guilty because we weren’t able to pass our articles to the assigned server. Thank god we passed late because if we passed on time, we might be one of the groups who plagiarized an article. Mr. Montejo warned those groups to see him after class so that they could still give cure to the plagiarized article because if they won’t, there will be a very big probability that they may be expelled from the University.
Our website was safely launched and we ware still waiting for the announcing of winners, hope we will place.