Plagiarism: Why it is Never Worth the Risk Lauren Lord Liberty University Abstract In life in general and particularly in academic writing, it is important to get things right and one of the ways to get off to a good start as a student, is to practice proper etiquette when finding sources to use for one’s research papers. Little is more important in the constructing of these academic papers than the giving of credit where credit is due, pardon the cliché, if you may. There is great
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Plagiarism From the beginning of recorded civilation the concept of stealing has been considered wrong by most social norms. One of the Ten Commandments delivered by Moses is Thou shall not steal. At that time and since, stealing or theft has carried with it penalties, ranging from the village thief having a hand cut off to Martha Stewart doing jail time for using insider stock information. Not all theft is plagiarism, but all plagiarism is stealing. (Thesis Statement)? What do you Think?
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Avoiding plagiarism in college writing The word plagiarism can be described in multiple ways and it has various definition. According to the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary the word plagiarism is referred to as plagiarizing and the definition of plagiarizing is: “To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own”:” use (another’s production) without crediting the source”. Merriam-Webster (2013) Some individuals don’t have integrity, determination
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An Exploration of Plagiarism Plagiarism Defined Plagiarism is a word that many students are introduced to at an adolescent age in an academic setting, but are likely only given simple instruction that plagiarism is the copying of work from another person, that it is not to be tolerated, and what the consequences may be if they are found guilty. The knowledge of plagiarism can and should go much deeper than that though. The word plagiarism is derived from the Latin word, plagiarius, meaning ‘kidnapper’
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Plagiarism is an extremely serious violation of academic integrity. The Code of Student Conduct defines plagiarism as “the unacknowledged inclusion, in work submitted for credit, of someone else’s words, ideas, or data.” Plagiarism can occur in a countless amount of forms and media. Even though, most commonly dealing with writing, all types of scholarly work, including: computer code, music, scientific data and analysis, and electronic publications can be plagiarized. The aim of this section is to
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When you got your paper back with a grade of F for plagiarism, you reacted in predictable fashion -- with indignant denial of any wrongdoing. You claimed “you cited everything” and denied that you had committed intentional plagiarism, or ever would. This response is all too familiar to an experienced professor. Only once in my three decades of teaching has a student I caught plagiarizing owned up to it right away. And in that case, I believe (perhaps cynically) that she (a graduate student) thought
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Professional people who commit plagiarism are socially irresponsible and are not suitable to occupy professional roles in society. Professional people committing acts of plagiarism in today’s society while occupying a professional role are unethical and irresponsible. Using examples and analysing relevant materials this essay argues this point in relation to the building and construction management field, more specifically in the areas of design, engineering and architecture. Plagiarism, in this industry is
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PLAGIARISM IS PHILLIP N. RODRIGUEZ TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY Abstract Plagiarism is not only unethical but it is a form of robbing the ideas and creations or thoughts of someone else. Now that the internet and other online reference data is so accessible, cyber plagiarism or when someone gets information from the World Wide Web while not giving credit to the original author is a common thing nowadays. Students want to succeed in class and sometimes instead of studying
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their articles or during their speeches, it would be considered plagiarism. In newspapers, in order to avoid plagiarism accusation, journalists should give credit to other authors when they indicate some of their ideas. There are several types of plagiarism; some have serious consequences and some don’t. The three main prospective consequences lie in academic penalties, ruining the reputation, and financial losses. Willful plagiarism can cause sever consequences for students in the university. Zinie
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Plagiarism is a very serious problem. It is not only limited in the academic area and is increasingly happening in different areas of business world (Nitterhouse, 2003, p.215). The Martin, Rao, and Sloan’s paper (2009) also reveals the correlation between academic plagiarism and their potential future working behavior (pp.39~40). Plagiarism is an issue of personal value, responsibility, integrity, self-control. Students’ attitudes toward plagiarism will have on-going and relevant effects on their
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Internet Plagiarism In this day and age, the internet has become a right hand tool for many, especially, the technologically advanced youth. As much as this tool, can be great assistance to many, sometimes, it seems to have taken the place of the actual work, rather than being an aid to it. “A study conducted on 23 college campuses has found that Internet plagiarism is rising among students” (Rimmer 1). This idea of copying work online, has reached new heights among schools and
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I have read the coursework declaration form and I accept the University rules on cheating and plagiarism. I state that the work submitted is my own and does not contain any unacknowledged work from other sources. As the author of the submitted work I am prepared to undertake an oral examination of its contents. Executive Summary With the data submitted by David and Victoria I put together some general statistics table and charts which included all of the important information. From these tables
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James Mack 12 December 2012 Writing Assignment 2 Case Study #1: Plagiarism Plagiarism is something that all individuals have done before whether it is intentional or not. In high school plagiarism was very common because having to write research papers and all types of reports were over whelming at that age and we also were in the process of learning how to cite and paraphrases other individuals work. In college I believe plagiarism still exist, but as much as it did in high school. I am not to sure
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Plagiarism and Academic Integrity Plagiarism: This is when you submit an assignment as your own original work when the work has been copied, without appropriate acknowledgment of the author or source. Collusion: This is when your assignment is the result of unauthorised collaboration with another student or students. Collusion involves the cooperation of two or more students in plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct. Plagiarism and collusion constitute cheating
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Piracy is the infringement of a copyright, and plagiarism is the failure to give credit.They are confused because the most common examples of these wrongs involve both sorts of wrongs. But it is not hard to give examples that separate them. It would be plagiarism but not piracy for me to take the works of an obscure 19th . poet and try to pass them off as my own. Since the copyright will have expired on such works, this is not piracy. But it remains plagiarism of the sort that could be grounds for dismissal
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Running head: Plagiarism Plagiarism Utilizing an individual(s) material, facts, information of any kind and representing the document as your very own is plagiarizing. There are different ways to plagiarize: (1) Direct Reproduction: which is copy and paste, the student will copy and paste the entire document excluding the name(s) of the author (this type of plagiarizing is generally known), (2) Word Switch: words are
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Courtney Grothusen 104/02 Plagiarism Assignment 29 January 2015 What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is more that cloying a test or homework. Plagiarism is taking someone's published piece of work and calling it your own. You are taking more than their work, you are taking the time, energy, and knowledge that they used and acquired while writing that work. You are taking away the information that you would gain if you did the work yourself along with the realization that doing the work is worth time
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Once I submitted the article of “Lab Courses Go Virtual” by Thomas F. Edgar the results came back as plagiarism in progress. If I was the instructor due to the fact that plagiarism is considered as stealing, I would depending on the situation have to sit the student down and see what type of actions need to be taken towards him or her. If the situation was not too bad, with not many errors, I would place the student on probation so they will have time to sit down and think about their mistakes and
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Plagiarism Mary Abu-farha Wayne State University Plagiarism Plagiarism can be defined in many ways, but essentially all the different definitions of plagiarism link back to the same meaning. According to dictionary.com, plagiarism is the act of taking another person’s writing or ideas and claiming it to be of your own work (plagiarism, Dictionary.com). However, this is just a broad definition of plagiarism while there are many forms of plagiarism that should be understood in order to comprehend
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Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.[1][2] The idea remains problematic with unclear definitions and unclear rules.[3][4][5][6] The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century, particularly with the Romantic movement. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a
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Plagiarism August 31, 2014 Plagiarism, the very word brings to mind two other words; summarizing and paraphrasing. To understand by definition these words meanings: Summarizing - Verb : To tell (information) again using fewer words Transitive verb : To tell in or reduce to a summary Paraphrasing – Noun : A statement that says something that another person has said or written in a different way : A restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form Plagiarism - Transitive
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What is plagiarism: g, theft Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote Borrowing an original idea and presenting it as a new idea An act of fraud Using material without crediting the sources Citing a source incorrectly Translating others’ written work into another language without citation Unethical behavior There is a common misconception among students that adding quotation marks around a paragraph is enough to show proper attribution. To show proper attribution, a writer
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Student, Upon receiving each student’s essay, I run them through the plagiarism checker on the University’s website. This has become the norm for instructors given the vast amount of information that is on the Internet and readily accessibly for anyone. After running your essay through the plagiarism checker, it resulted in a 100% similarity index, meaning that this is not your original work and was taken in its entirety from an article, copied and submitted as your own work for this assignment
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Activity 3: Plagiarism Dear Mr. Hebert, I would just like to say thank you in advance for taking extra time to review my essay and put in the effort to explain why you think that specific passage is an example of plagiarism, but with all due respect, I am going to have to disagree with you and here’s why. According to Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary plagiarize means “To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own : use (another’s production) without crediting the source”
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Plagiarism can be a problem in the university setting. First, in order to avoid this problem, one needs to know how plagiarism is defined. It is also helpful to know the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing. And, finally, there are benefits in knowing how to put information one's own words and in accurately citing one's sources. Plagiarism is defined by the Council of Writing Program Administrators (1) as follows: “In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when
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Preventing Plagiarsim Plagiarism has become a widespread problem in colleges all over. Plagiarism is a problem today because of the easy access to information on the Internet. All can agree there is no stopping it but there can be more preventive strategies. John Barry, president of Turnitin.com, suggests using his online detection site is the best preventative route to go. On the contrary, Writing and Rhetoric Professor Rebecca Moore Howard of Syracuse University suggests teachers should educate
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Plagiarism is the incorporation of someone else's work – including their language and ideas – without providing adequate credit.[1] The University of Cambridge defines plagiarism as: "submitting as one's own work, irrespective of intent to deceive, that which derives in part or in its entirety from the work of others without due acknowledgement."[2] Wikipedia has three core content policies, two of which make it easy to plagiarize inadvertently. No original research prohibits us from adding our
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There are many definitions of plagiarism, but let me suggest a definition that better captures the the usage of the term in academia: We may suggest that plagiarism is the attempt to pass off an unoriginal material as if it were original. This definition scores over many dictionary definitions and includes concepts as diverse as: submitting another person's work as one's own--whether in totality or in part, submitting a work of one's own hand in multiple forums (e.g., two different classes or
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The Ethic Of Business Perspectives Martin Castro University Of Phoenix RES/351 10/1/2014 Rick Benito Faculty plagiarism and fraud is widely acknowledged but yet little investigations have remained taken in this article that asks the question on why dose faculty proceed on having to do plagiarism as well as perform fraud, how to proceed on different ways on building an environment where faculties in University or in a corporation would not have to perform those procreators. The lacking moral
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The Two Faces of Plagiarism and How to Avoid It Randall Rivas Educational Psychology Abstract In this paper both teachers and students will find helpful advice on dealing with plagiarism. Teachers will learn about the types of teachers and a solution that Jeff Karon has come up with. You will then find a section where I, Randall Rivas, come up with my own solution to the problem. Students will learn what plagiarism is and some tips and websites to help them avoid
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