Global Citizenship
My global citizenship scenario with my expert group: For a fifth grade science project, the students were expected to write a paragraph explaining the photosynthesis process and submit it to Turnitin.com. Molly wanted her paragraph to sound professional and educated, so she found multiple articles explaining the process online to help her articulate her thoughts. Molly copied and pasted sentences from the multiple articles she found to create one paragraph to submit. Once submitted to Turnitin.com, the website notified her that over 80% of her paragraph was plagiarized. Since Molly did not copy an entire paragraph from a single source and added some of her own ideas, she believed that it was still acceptable. The next day, Molly’s teacher pulled her aside to address the situation. Molly argued that she deserved credit for the assignment because she researched the topic and created her own paragraph based on what she read. She considers putting together sentences she found on...