Plagiarism can be defined as, “The practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them off as one’s own.” In simpler words if you,
- Stole and pass off somebody else’s work as your own
- Used somebody else’s work without citing it
- You are presenting a new idea which already has been presented or copyrighted
- Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- Copying many words, so that it’ll create bulk of your work, then you have committed plagiarism.
In academics, most often plagiarism is done in writing research papers, class assignments, discussions or posting any response without proper citation for part of requirement. …show more content…
This conduct may be excused if, you are using particular finding / sentence/ wording to back up your own thinking or work BUT the finding/ sentence/ wording you have borrowed has to be properly cited from the original primary or secondary source.
3) Cut paste plagiarism with references:
When you copy some text from somewhere, you provide reference to that text but no quotation. So reference just provide the source of the original text but not necessarily provide any proof that it’s your work but no quotation was involved.
Prevalence of plagiarism in Academics :
- According to study conducted in Rutgers University in 2005, 63000 undergraduate and 9000 graduate students were included in this particular plagiarism study and results was catastrophic.
- 74% student admitted that they copied/ paraphrased sentences or paragraphs from internet without providing citation.
- 14% students admitted that they falsified/ fabricated the bibliography.
- 7% accepted that they turned in somebody else’s work.
- Reason behind Why I provided this statistical analysis was, its not uncommon that plagiarism is practiced in undergraduate and graduate school but in any scenario its not acceptable and …show more content…
- According to my understanding plagiarism can be bypassed by,
- Thinking: They say “Let’s put up our thinking cap on”, well “They”, are probably correct. You have to be loud in your thinking. Indulge yourself in paper or research topic. Sometimes all you need is enough time to actually think about your assignment (which is main problem with many student, including me, because they don’t start their assignment soon enough and end up googling about topic and intentionally or unintentionally copying the text.)
- Writing: It may be my fault that I didn’t write many (actually none) papers in my undergraduate or in high school. It may be one of the leading reason behind student plagiarising their work. Because if you don’t have enough of practice about writing or even you are weak in vocabulary section, one tend to go the other way around to finish the academic work and get caught by the system. If you practice to actually jot down your thought in however simple manner it not only will increase your thinking capacity but it can boost up your word bank and gives you good vocabulary to play with.
- “Quote’em”: sometimes it’s a good thing to support your understanding with factoids, but you cant just present as your own work. If you are doing so, put them in a quotation mark, provide a reference and you are good to
- Stole and pass off somebody else’s work as your own
- Used somebody else’s work without citing it
- You are presenting a new idea which already has been presented or copyrighted
- Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
- Copying many words, so that it’ll create bulk of your work, then you have committed plagiarism.
In academics, most often plagiarism is done in writing research papers, class assignments, discussions or posting any response without proper citation for part of requirement. …show more content…
This conduct may be excused if, you are using particular finding / sentence/ wording to back up your own thinking or work BUT the finding/ sentence/ wording you have borrowed has to be properly cited from the original primary or secondary source.
3) Cut paste plagiarism with references:
When you copy some text from somewhere, you provide reference to that text but no quotation. So reference just provide the source of the original text but not necessarily provide any proof that it’s your work but no quotation was involved.
Prevalence of plagiarism in Academics :
- According to study conducted in Rutgers University in 2005, 63000 undergraduate and 9000 graduate students were included in this particular plagiarism study and results was catastrophic.
- 74% student admitted that they copied/ paraphrased sentences or paragraphs from internet without providing citation.
- 14% students admitted that they falsified/ fabricated the bibliography.
- 7% accepted that they turned in somebody else’s work.
- Reason behind Why I provided this statistical analysis was, its not uncommon that plagiarism is practiced in undergraduate and graduate school but in any scenario its not acceptable and …show more content…
- According to my understanding plagiarism can be bypassed by,
- Thinking: They say “Let’s put up our thinking cap on”, well “They”, are probably correct. You have to be loud in your thinking. Indulge yourself in paper or research topic. Sometimes all you need is enough time to actually think about your assignment (which is main problem with many student, including me, because they don’t start their assignment soon enough and end up googling about topic and intentionally or unintentionally copying the text.)
- Writing: It may be my fault that I didn’t write many (actually none) papers in my undergraduate or in high school. It may be one of the leading reason behind student plagiarising their work. Because if you don’t have enough of practice about writing or even you are weak in vocabulary section, one tend to go the other way around to finish the academic work and get caught by the system. If you practice to actually jot down your thought in however simple manner it not only will increase your thinking capacity but it can boost up your word bank and gives you good vocabulary to play with.
- “Quote’em”: sometimes it’s a good thing to support your understanding with factoids, but you cant just present as your own work. If you are doing so, put them in a quotation mark, provide a reference and you are good to