Hangchun Zheng(compare Jaml with Haley and marita)

Among the story of Jamal, Haley, and Marita, there are similarity and difference. The similarity among these story are they all committed plagiarism and they all got caught. The differences are the story behind each of them. In Jamal’s case, he used William’s writing to turn into the school as his work, but he never knows that the paper had been published. He promises William that anything they wrote at the house stay in the house, but he breaks the promise. Jamal knows that using someone else’s writing is still considered plagiarizing, but he never know that Crawford will find out. In Haley’s case, her situation is pretty similar to Jamal. They both know that it is plagiarizing. Haley used the method of copy and past and changed some of the words into her own. They both don’t think that they will get caught. So I believe they both should be punished. However, I don’t believe Marita should be punished because her situation is different from them. Marita never know that she committed plagiarism. She came from a tough neighbor hood high school, so she never learned the correct way of writing or/and citing a paper. If she had known that, she probably wouldn’t turn in that paper. Therefore, Marita should receive second chance to write the paper, instead of punishment. Since this is her first time knowing that, this would serve as a warning to Marita. If she does commit plagiarism again in the future, she should be punished.