Paper 4 Cover Letter

With this paper I was trying to say that all of the different things that are considered as plagiarism do not deserve the same punishments. I described the different things that are considered plagiarism and wrote why patchwriting and misusing citations should not receive the same punishments as copying and pasting someones work. I described how giving students another chance to fix things would help improve their writing. I mentioned how teachers jump right into punishing because of the policies that they have to follow and how the policies should be changed. I understand how people would argue that everyone deserves credit for their work and acknowledged what others might say. I think that my idea is working well and I have good points. I know my paper is missing something and needs to be longer so if you have any suggestion for when needs to be added or talked about more that would help me a lot.  If i had more time I would have probably read through a lot more articles.

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