Plagiarism-Cheating ? A different perspective

I read an interesting article from today Sunday Star Education section-"Another face to cut-and-paste". I agree with the author point of view, that is, the educational system needs to acknowledge what the paper is today: a work product that tests very particular skills- the ability to synthesize and properly cite the work of others- and not student's knowledge, originality and overall ability.

TurnItIn is a website which provides the software to detect plagiarism, may be IMU is using this kind of software to detect whether we plagiaries our portfolio ...



Actually, I think that the most important thing that counts when you get into the society is to do something efficient . For example, will you spend so much time to do a portfolio when you can just get all the information you want from a journal or a reliable source when you are graduate and just want to update yourself? As long as you get what you want, learn what you want, that's it, what for to spend like 12 hours to do information gathering, drafting, summary, and writing. I doubt neither you nor I would...