CU1000 English for Academic Purposes Assessment 4: Critical Essay

CU1000 English for Academic Purposes Assessment 4: Critical Essay (30%)

Critical Essay Planning
INTRODUCTION
Background
(To introduce the topic. May include
surprising or interesting facts, a
definition, and some background
information.)
The internet has changed the era of the academic writers as easy
availability and affordability rendered by the internet has changed
the lives. This digital era has been fought between the two aspects
boon and bane. Before the digital era, the academic knowledge can
be only accessed through the academic libraries, courses and the
seminars provided by the experts. This limitation disappeared with
the digital era through which the scholars and professional writers
now can access the information and knowledge from just a mouse
click in an online form.
Thesis
(This is a statement of your standpoint
or the view taken – the controlling idea
of your essay that you will develop in
the main body. It should be concise and
convincing)
‘Digital era- A boon or bane for academic and professional writers?’
Outline Originality and plagiarism due to digital era
Trends that lead to digital literacies
Issues and benefits in digital scholarship
Conclusion drawing out the problems and potentials that are faced
by academic and professional writers in digital era
BODY PARAGRAPHS
(add more paragraphs if needed ↓)
Paragraph 1
Topic One A slip up between plagiarism and copyright infringement

Controlling idea
The snowballing of high-rated plagiarism cases in universities by the
students and researchers are mainly due to the reasons like the
failure of an effective learning process that was laid out by the
studies conducted by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus. This
study pointed out as one of the reasons for the failure to
acknowledge the right sources of citing by the students that created a
complication of the lack of common knowledge. There was also a
great confusion between the plagiarism and copyright infringement
which was also explained by different authors trying to lay clarity
between these two.
Supporting
sentences
(include the source(s) among the 9
articles you wish to cite from)
Point 1:
The supporting arguments for the difference between the copyrights
and plagiarism laid by Cohen, an author was that plagiarism
according to him is just a matter of ethics while it forms a matter of
law in case of copyrights. But ethics does not come out to be a
fundamental criterion on which distinction can be made between the
plagiarism and copyright infringement. Another idea for the
distinction between these two was laid by Cohen that denotes
copyrights as a crime and a matter of law while plagiarism is
deemed to be a community norm (Laura J. Murray, 2005).
Point 2:
Another supporting statement that depicts two approaches of
plagiarism as perceived by educators and teachers is that they
assume it as a symptom led by ignorance of the writers and students