Plagiarism In Australia Essay

The act of plagiarism is unforgivable, especially in a college environment. Stealing someone’s ideas and claiming them as one’s own is a guaranteed way to be kicked out of college. I believe that this act is wrong, but sadly it’s this same act that I have committed. My plagiarism charge comes from my Tiwi of Australia case study professor. Professor Proudhon spotted a section in my report that came almost directly from a passage and wasn’t cited correctly. I’m not writing to convince anyone that i’m innocent, but I will say that my plagiarism was not intentional.
When I wrote the report I didn’t exactly understand what plagiarism was. I thought that Plagiarism was simply copy and pasting from a source and trying to lie and say that it was honestly written. I wrote the report using direct quotes and I assumed that changing the paragraphs around and citing the source would give me the right to use the information I had obtained. It wasn’t until Professor Proudhon called me and explained the situation that I realized that plagiarism is stealing anyone's work and claiming as one’s own whether it’s cited or not. My misunderstanding of the word led me to commit the act, Not laziness. The report was written honestly and I put a lot of effort into researching and editing. I thought that using more information directly from my sources would …show more content…
He told me to redo the assignment or get an incomplete. After going over my first report I concluded that I was in the wrong and redid it. I received a reduced grade, but the report was written in my own words and with information from my sources that were cited appropriately. My professor read the report and checked for plagiarism and found that everything was alright, and all future reports were also checked. This was also my first accusation of plagiarising. All my reports for the Case Study course and the courses I took before were also checked after I submitted them to my