piątek, 30 grudnia 2011

First Lesson of Plagiarism

By Qurrat Hassan


What is plagiarism? This question might pinch the minds of many online users particularly high school students and novice authors. It’s unfortunate but many internet visitors translate plagiarism as another name of copy and paste. However, plagiarism is not simply copy and pasting but its sealing someone else work and pretending if you are the creator of this artwork, book, design or research paper. It could be anything from copying your friend’s assignment to stealing contents from an online journal and using that material in without giving the reference of the original author.

Plagiarism is the hottest topic of online community and over the last few days many high profile authors, publication and academic institutes have been charged with plagiarism. Since our childhood, we have been told that stealing is as bad as killing someone. So now how we can make it legal for us to steal someone else work and claim it our property.

Reasons of Plagiarism:

There are multiple reasons behind plagiarism; sometimes it can be planned plagiarism or sometime its accidental plagiarism. Many people intentionally copy material from another student’s journal, an author’s book, from an online research paper or sometimes it happens when you use the help of a friend or relative and in the spirit of friendship they opt to go for plagiarism.

Accidental plagiarism occurs when you don’t know that copying another persona’s work is not allowed by law, or when you express another person’s idea in your own words or when you copy notes, paragraphs, and designs from other sources but forget to mention the proper citation or reference of the original source.

Some other reasons for plagiarism are:

- You don’t have sufficient energy to write.
- You think your readers will not notice your plagiarism.
- Or you think your readers will not care.

Types of Plagiarism:

Any part no matter it’s a small chunk from a book, journal, and an idea of another person or a design such as a logo or website design copied without the proper citation or reference is falls into the categories of plagiarism. The type of plagiarism depends on the ratio of stolen content such as Minimal Plagiarism, Substantial Plagiarism and Complete plagiarism.

Consequences of Plagiarism:

These days plagiarism is considered an offense and may result into various charges and penalties. A student will get 0 marks, will be warned, suspended or rusticated. While business level plagiarism may cause a ban on the author, web site or blog, removal of plagiarized material from internet, a search engine rank drop or any other sanctions or formal charges.

Advice:

Plagiarism may go unnoticed at start but at higher level of your profession or academic career, you have to show the evidences for your ideas and facts.

The guidance for victim of accidental plagiarism is that these days many Plagiarism Checker online tools have been introduced and available for use on the internet. A plagiarism detector helps you to check your work for any unintentional plagiarism and take the right action at the right time to avoid any future problems.






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