In today’s academic world many students are challenged when it comes to writing, or so they think. Many of them believe that they can go on the internet and use whatever is needed for the paper they are writing. Maybe it is a lack of knowledge or confidence that they are capable of expressing themselves on paper. The majority of the time many students procrastinate until the last minute to write a paper. There are few thing students need to learn about plagiarism such as what is plagiarism, how to cite sources correctly, methods of detecting plagiarism, and what academic punishment they face when caught. Okay, let’s define what is plagiarism? According to (Plagiarism.org, 2014), “Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas”. But it also defined by Merriam- Webster online dictionary as using someone else’s work as your own, not giving credit to the source you got it from, and pretending that you created the idea. For example, you are researching information for an essay and you find an article that has exactly what you need. You decide to use the information as your own that is plagiarism. Another example is you use information from a website and you use some of it and not create a reference page to show that your information came from that source. There are many different types of plagiarism that students may not be aware of when writing a paper. According to (Plagiarism.org, 2014) there are 10 common types of plagiarism that students commit but I would like to address some of them. The first type of plagiarism is Clone plagiarism. Clone is when you copy the exact words for your source and turn it in. Second, is CTRL-C is when students use most of the sources idea without ... ... middle of paper ... ... a reference page for all of the sources students have researched to retrieve information for their essay. Students must remember the sources on their reference page begin in alphabetical order. Works Cited Gorman, G. E. (2008). The plague of plagiarism in an online world. Online Information Review, 32(3), 297-301. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14684520810889637 Liberty.edu. Student expectations. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http:// www.liberty.edu. Plagiarism.org. What is plagiarism (n.d.). Retrieved April 20, 2014, from http:// www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Zimerman, M. (2012). Plagiarism and international students in academic libraries. Emerald, 113, 290-299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/0307480121226373
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The better educated you are, the better off you are socially, and economically. Having a degree is, in general, a good indicator of your level of education. To get it some students study very hard. Others, on the contrary, prefer to take some shortcuts that seem to be easier for them. Those, not so much interested in acquiring a solid education, simply want to plagiarize to pass their classes, to get that degree. Plagiarism spreads out through any level of our education system. It even extends beyond that limit to reach almost any aspect of our society. With the internet revolution, this problem becomes more acute. “The web has provided global access to an unfathomable cornucopia of term papers, essays, and other scholarly works, right there out in the open for purchase or outright theft” (Simonson, Smaldino, & Zvacek, 2015, p. 160). This paper will discuss the different types of plagiarism. Before getting deeper into that discussion, we will start by explaining the word plagiarism.
Plagiarism is the copying of another individual’s writings and ideas. Plagiarism is an idea that has been constructed by society. It revolves around society’s ideas of intellectual and private property. It is considered to be a form of cheating. Often times in elementary schools and high schools, plagiarism is discussed as bad but is not actually prevented. Teachers often do not detect plagiarism and even when they do, sometimes it is ignored. The student is then rewarded with a good grade, ingraining within the student that it is acceptable to plagiarize. Plagiarism affects the ways an individual develops as a person and as a writer.
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Plagiarism takes various forms. A student may cheat doing something as extreme as purchasing a paper, hiring someone to write a paper or turning in a paper freely provided by a friend. Many students unknowingly commit Plagiarism by failing to properly cite their sources crediting the authors. Still others cite, but plagiarize by coping much too much and writing far, far too little of their own synthesized thoughts and ideas. Students must be careful about copying too much. If a paper is mostly other writers’ material, that can be considered Plagiarism, even if the student credits their sources.
As stated before, one would become familiar with plagiarism in middle school, when a teacher assigns a student to write a paper. Mostly at that time it would be said, do not copy, or paste someone else words into your papers, use your own words. Or use citations in the paper. A student is told what the consequence of doing it, which is a failing grade. As a person gets further in their educational level, the use of plagiarism is more detailed and have different consequences of
Scott Jaschik discusses various situations of plagiarism in college in his article, “Winning Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism,” in order to argue that there are more efficient solutions to prevent plagiarism. Having his article published in an online news source, Inside Higher Ed, allows for Jaschik to have an audience of first year English and college instructors interested in learning about higher education. Jaschik writes in general to an audience who is interested in academic integrity and those who want to either stop or learn more about plagiarism. Jaschik employs various situations such as an online student discussion board and an assignment to purposely plagiarize in order to highlight common issues with why students plagiarize.
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Plagiarism is taking someone else’s work or idea and using as a benefit by making it look like it has not been copied from some sort of source. Plagiarism can be done unintentionally or intentionally either way it is a serious crime especially in schools and universities because it is known to be a form of cheating.
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The last thing a student can do to avoid plagiarism is to check over their paraphrasing and quoting to make sure that they haven’t missed anything that may make their paper violate the plagiarism rule. Always cite sources used to gather information and sources used to incorporate graphs, tables, and etc. into the paper.
Plagiarism is a serious offense and a growing trend in our society today. Some may associate plagiarism with the idea of taking someone else’s writing and making it their own. In fact plagiarism involves anything that is copied or taken and said to be of your own work. Dictionary.com defines plagiarism as “the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work, as by not crediting the author”. In fact this definition covers all types of cheating and misrepresentation of ones own work. There are many numbers and statistics that can be found on the amount of individuals that have admitted to cheating. Perhaps the most astounding number is one that was reported by Moeck in 2002 aloft of 40% of higher education students commit academic dishonesty. This number I’m sure has grown since this report and will continue to grow with the development of the Internet. There are a number of ideas and strategies that can be employed in order to stop this ever-growing phenomenon. As teachers and adults, we are responsible for stopping this trend and educating students about the consequences and dangers of plagiarism. I believe there are a variety of reasons individuals plagiarize. First, students are insecure with their own ability; they don’t believe they can do the work therefore they take others. Second, students believe they can get away with the act because they know others who have plagiarized, and there were not any consequences. Lastly, students are uneducated on what plagiarism is and do not know the consequences of their actions if they commit an act. These ideas will be the focus of the position taken on plagiarism in today’s academic society.