Avoiding Plagarism

Plagiarism is the use of intellectual material of another individual or institution without acknowledging the source. Two examples of this are copying directly passages or ideas into papers or homework without acknowledgment of the source or paraphrasing ideas, views, insights, or opinions from the work of another without acknowledgment.

In the article, “Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age” written by author Trip Gabriel, there are multiple views on the aspects of plagiarism. Some people refuse to take plagiarism seriously, having a strong educational background as foundation as well as respect for other individuals work. Plagiarism is a serious offense and often considered a form of theft. Consequences for plagiarism can vary depending upon the campus, but can lead up to expulsion. Plagiarism commonly known as taking pieces of ideas or words and phrases from someone without giving credit.

1. Plagiarism is a dishonest, unprofessional and mindless act of fraud. Essentially, when an individual plagiarizes he/she is stealing another’s ideas, thoughts or work and presenting them as his/her own rather than giving credit where credit is due. To avoid such an offense, one can simply cite the sources of his/her work, use quotations marks for direct quotes and give credit to the individual who spoke the words or wrote them, as well as summarize knowledge gained in one’s own words.

It was not until 18th century, that the word plagiarism came to designate in intellectual theft (Peter Ackroyd’s). According to the relationship to this paper, plagiarism is one of many classification that constitute academic dishonesty. In the education program, plagiarism is the most common among student, but there are different ways to plagiarism. This paper will discuss plagiarism and various way plagiarism can be committed.

Plagiarism is an act of academic dishonesty that involves a scholar committing one or more of the following actions: portraying any portion of another's work as the scholar's (including turning in work that an individual other than the scholar prepared, regardless of the willingness of the individual), portraying another author's idea(s) as the scholar's, misrepresenting a source's meaning or content, or inadequate citation or missing citation. Plagiarism can occur in three main categories: wording, content, and citation. Plagiarism due to wording occurs when a scholar uses the wording of the original without quotes. Plagiarism due to content occurs when a scholar rewords the original but does so too closely and often without giving the original author credit. It can also occur when a scholar misconstrues the meaning of the source, effectively claiming the original author stated content or opinions that he/she did not. Citation plagiarism occurs when parenthetical citations or works cited entries are missing or inaccurate. Using a source in a paper and failing to include a citation entry is also considered plagiarism as it does not allow the readers to access the original source- "Academic Policies and Procedures Relating to Students." Academic Policies and Procedures Relating to Students - Florida SouthWestern State College - Acalog ACMS™, catalog.fsw.edu/content.php?catoid=10&navoid=536#academic-integrity-policy.

Plagiarism is the act of copying someone else's work and putting it as one's work . Plagiarism goes beyond just copying out the idea and work, it is also discredits the work done by another person that has previously worked on the idea as it presents the idea as original.

Plagiarism is a very common mistake many writers can make without even realizing it. As a college student my academic integrity is very important to me. A person’s academic integrity is the hard work and honesty that represents someone. Plagiarism is something that I believe that can be intentional or unintentional based on the circumstances for the writer. As a beginning writer I remember not feeling comfortable citing sources because I didn’t believe I was doing it correctly. Or perhaps the idea when I was researching for a topic I was putting writing in my own words, but somehow I could’ve made another author’s words similar to my own without thinking about it. Plagiarism in most cases is intentional. My definition is the act of stealing

Plagiarism is increasingly becoming a more significant issue in colleges nowadays. It destroys creative thinking of a person and needs to be tackled with conscious efforts from colleges and students. Plagiarism is a fraudulent act in which you use another person’s work and fail to give a reference. It is ethically wrong, and breaks the academic code of conduct, affecting the student’s reputation and performance. In colleges, plagiarism can occur because students fear to fail or due to poor time management, thus, they are unable to conduct research efficiently.

A week ago, I was assigned to write a persuasive essay on plagarism. On whether I thought plagarism was wrong. I had to use two sources that the insstructor had provided plus other ones I wanted regarding that topic and my perspective of why I thought it was wrong.

Plagiarism is an act of copying someone else's ideas, conversation and representing as your own work and show that you have written the work you are presenting. Also, when people plagiarism they are stealing and doing fraud with other people work and show the person they are presenting that they have work really hard. These days its very easy for people to plagiarize and do fraud with other people's' work, it's all because of the internet access we have. Also, with internet access people can fine anything they wants to write about on different website. When we copy anything from internet, it's necessary for us to give credit to the person.

Plagiarism is when someone takes credit for someone else work. It could be anything from copying and pasting an article or part of an article and using it for a paper or assignment to buying a pre-written paper online. It could also be as simply as copying someone's answers from a test.

Plagiarism is the process of taking some one else work or ideas and showing it as their own works (Oxford Dictionaries). The purpose of this study is to understand 6 different ethical reasons used by student to overcome with plagiarism and with help of these ethical reason, faculties can bring a solution to stop or prevent plagiarism. Where as unethical behavior can also lead to worries in school or colleges, so there is need to correct it so that it has positive impact on organizational ethics. Although, after reading this journal article, it was clearly seen that mostly used ethical reasons are Deontology, Situational Ethics and Machiavellianism to overcome with the problem of Plagiarism (Ashworth and Bannister, 1997).

A lot of students plagiarize without even realizing it. Throughout my paper I am going to tell you why students plagiarize, how plagiarism is detected, what the consequences are, why it’s important for students to understand, and what constitutes plagiarism. By the time I get done with my paper you will know all you need to know about plagiarism. Before we get started I am going to give you a definition of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas or other original material without acknowledging (council of writing program administrators, 2003)

Plagiarism is, as defined by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, is “in an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas or other original (not common-knowledge) without acknowledging its source.” Plagiarism is a nice word for cheating. [1]

One of the biggest issues that will come up when students write papers, is plagiarism. It is getting harder for students to avoid plagiarism. When a student plagiarizes, it can greatly affect them in a number of ways. The intention of this paper is to discuss what plagiarism is, how to give the proper documentation, and what to use when citing a source.