Improve your Writing (Plagiarism)
I personally struggle with this one as there are so many ways in which you can commit plagiarism. Recently I have just decided to just do research on anything I write and put links so no one can question me or the information.
I had a lovely experience, a few weeks back, where my tutor deducted marks from a paper I wrote about music. As you all know I have a passion for music, I have done a lot of reading about the effects of music and anything related to music.
So I wrote this paper about music, I will never write a paper on something I do not know about. I the received feed back that I need to redo the paper and state where I got the information from... Ah that lovely moment, when I thought to myself. Reference: "Inside a hard moist dark case, where the brain for dragonslayer lies" Sadly I could not put this in as a reference, although I really wanted to.
"Intentional Plagiarism is the deliberate act of representing the words, ideas, or data of another as one's own without providing proper attribution to the author through quotation, reference, or footnote. Inadvertent Plagiarism involves the inappropriate, but non-deliberate, use of another's words, ideas, or data without proper attribution. It is a form of academic misconduct for which an instructor can impose appropriate academic sanctions" (BYU-I website).
Intentional plagiarism is quite simple to explain: you go to a website click and drag then copy and paste it in your paper.
When you write any paper be careful with your sources you use and also state all sources you use. The area I slip up in is, if something is not general knowledge and there is no source to were the information comes from then this is also considered inadvertent plagiarism.
My suggestion to you , as I have also had to do this, always do some research to have a source to add to your paper. I have now started to do this with all my papers as some people have different general knowledge to others.
Why does it matter?
Plagiarism is a crime. Where I stay, if you plagiarise anything in any university, you can be suspended from studying there for life. Another problem with this is that you get labelled and will probably never get accepted into any university or college. There are some serious consequences for doing this.
Plagiarism is also not fair to anyone. They put in time and effort to create that information. You should never take credit for someone's work.
Other information to cite
Many people forget about these small things, but they are considered plagiarism.
- Photographs
- Graphics
- Music
- Graphs
Anything else related to these things mentioned above are also considered plagiarism.
Some things never have to be cited. Common knowledge is one of them. Dates of events, historical events, do not need to be cited. Anything that is easy to find or is well known does not need to be cited.
The best thing to do is to always state where information comes from. I have learnt from experience that is it always better to be safe than sorry. So just state all information sources.
Just on a little side note for self improvement. I will be doing pushups, situps and squats for the amount of $$$ (ratio;$2:1) I earn on this post and will give a short feedback every day at the end of each post. This will be split in equally between all 3. Any not done will carry onto the next day.
Todat is a good day to leaen some new post. Great and informative information and thank you foe tge proper explainations about writing i definately leaent alot. There is really alot to learn when you want to write and make sense.
Good advice. I haven't come across plagiarism yet but always keeping an eye out
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What a lovely experience..))
Poor professors.. getting played by particularly cunning guys who know how to circumvent the anti-plagiarism.
But this has the opposite side. They just harm themselves because time they could spend on self-development they waste on stealing someone's material.
Oh well.. but what can you do??
Yeah your gif answers your question perfectly :)
Yea. But well... thanks for sharing, i liked your article a lot.
Just realised that there was a cat in the printer, it's cute :d
We had a saying at University that was 'Copying from one is plagiarism, copying from many is research'. Whilst not strictly true, its only plagiarism if you pass it off as your own work. If you use someone else's work and give them credit, or acknowledge the source, then that's fine! If you are passing off someone else's work as your own its effectively theft!
With more and more content and books, movies, videos made, It's hard for one new content creator to avoid plagiarism. It's simply that creativity has reached it's lowest level. Half of ministers in my country's goverment plagiarised their master's degrees. What does that say to us as humans? What will happen in like 50 to 100 years? Like Jorge Luis Borges wrote once: all books have been written. That's my view of the content nowadays. It's simply too hard to stay original, you must "borrow" something from the others because originality is either trash try egocentrism nowadays or it is some quality which can't reach the mainstream level. Thanks for your article @dragonslayer109
If you consider all of the above plagiarism (which you should) then this site has a big problem. I see so many pics in Posts of which you just know that they have not been created by the authors of the Post. But there also is much self created content, but im not sure if it is like 50/50 or 70/30 for plagiarism or the other way around
Copy and paste from one source = Plagiarism
Copy and paste from many different sources = Research
(OK, do NOT take what I said seriously)
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Well, to avoid plagiarism simply just give credits where credits are due. It's really not that difficult. Stealing, scamming, and cheating are good short-term strategies, but if you are looking to build a long-term viable business, honesty is still always the best policy.
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Well put thank you :)