Essay On Plagiarism

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The word ‘plagiarism’ derives from a Latin word, plagiarius means kidnapper. This word began with Roman poet Martial’s verses were ‘kidnapped’ by others. He was the first one who uses this word. It defines as someone stealing, using, expropriation of other’s work as one’s own. In 1601, Ben Jonson translated the word into English, plagiary to describe a literary thief. It was written and appeared in dictionary in 1755.
Dr. Bambaun categorized types of plagiarism into 5 groups: copy and paste, word switch, style, metaphor and idea plagiarism (Barnbaum C). Plagarism.org has published several plagiarism facts in its website. The findings were shocking. Donald McCabe had conducted a survey among 63,700 US undergraduate and 9,250 graduate students over three-year-course (2002-2005). Results showed that at least 74% of them admitted ‘paraphrasing few sentences from either internet or written source without citation’ (Plagiarism.org).
Mohanty showed the statistics of plagiarism in their article. In the survey conducted by The Center of Academic Integrity showed that 80% of college student ...

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