Confronting Plagiarism: A Personal Struggle

It is absolutely clear that you feel sad when somebody cheated and duplicate your own things. This causes many people to feel frustration and getting upset when they are facing this difficult situation. We know it is not a good attitude for students, authors, and anyone else to use something misappropriate that they didn’t belong it. I read an article that called “When the Story Stolen is Your Own”. When the author Sherman Alexie was writing this article, he was feeling nervous because somebody has stolen his article and use it in his own. Nobody didn’t believe him when he told the publisher that his story was stolen by someone and imitate that he belong it. Same as the students when they cheated each other and submit the same paper, it was one of the biggest challenge that happens some of the students when they are in the college.

There is many reasons person can cheat other people. Maybe the person is afraid to fail class or work and this may lead people to duplicate things. If you are honest person anything you were stolen should come back. It doesn’t matter how long it is going to take to

Alexie’s purpose is to communicate to the reader not to believe everything you read. He wants us to question and think deeply whatever we read so far. Alexie does this through the details of his story. It’s the details that separate the real writer from the fake. Alexie shows he is the true writer because he talks about personal aspects of his like on the Spokane Indian reservation. Alexie writes “my story, which features an autobiographical character named Thomas Builds-the fire who suffers a brain injury at birth and experience visionary seizures into his adulthood”. The details that Alexie uses to communicate his personal knowledge of a specific situation. His diction and phrasing speaks to understand the people that he was telling the