When I was in my
second semester of the third year in college, we got introduced to
essay writing, at the end of which we were to practically draft an
essay. The lecturer duly warned us against “copy –pasting”
works which had been submitted by former students. I thought I was
smarter than the lecturer, so I was sure that I would write
my essay in no more
than a week.
I had an elder sister in another college a few
kilometers away, and I used her to get me as many college papers from her
school as she could get. I had intended to use these college
papers to guide me
write
my essay, but one
of the college
papers caught my
eye so strongly I decided that I would not write
my essay but
instead alter the personal details and make the work appear as though
I had actually done write
my essay. I
convinced myself that it was not possible to discover this since I
had done previous college
papers in a
parallel outstanding manner.
I presumed the lecturer would express
amazement as to how I did write
my essay so
flawlessly, like he always did with all of my college
papers. I was not
keen to observe the grammatical mistakes in this essay I was coping;
otherwise I would have corrected them as I write
my essay.
Typically, I write
my essay and all
college
papers error free.
I was appalled when I was summoned before the senate for duplicating
students’ college
papers. I
discovered that these two institutions exchanged the outstanding
college
papers and posted
them on their websites. I had to write
my essay a second
time, and how ashamed I was.
