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    The ins and outs of plagiarism When faced with the option between right and wrong, which would be chosen? In most cases majority of people would go for the morally correct option but then there are always a select few who choose the wrong way to do things. Plagiarism is a widespread issue that educators need to deal with. Rachel Dearlove, the author of Rethinking the plagiarism problem, is an example of how writing to the high education audience is a way to explain plagiarism to students in ways

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    The biggest takeaway I experienced from the workbook was, the plagiarism grid, and the section about everything being plagiarism.  I thought that the plagiarism grid could be useful before, and after writing a paper.  It could help remind you of all the types of plagiarism to avoid.  The section about everything being plagiarism really made me stop and think.  If you really think about it, everything we say, write, and do we learnt from somewhere.  From the time we were born everything we think,

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    Plaigiarism Part 1

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    Anthony Scaletta - "Avoiding Plagiarism Part One." "Plagiarism 1.1" A. #1.) "changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit" is plaigiarism - Even if design and structure are mimiced in a sentence but the of the wording is different, the sentence is not your own. This is a very easy act to commit. (Fox and Azman, 2014, p. 15) #2.) "recycling an old paper" is plaigiarism - This is the equivalency of when any type of resource is taken and the wording is reconfigured

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    Rachida Kateb Dr. Dustin 20 November 2014 Plagiarism To plagiarize is “to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own.” As you can see to have the definition of plagiarism I had to google it and I quoted the definition from an online dictionary. With my own words it will be: plagiarism is a way to steal ideas from others, but this definition has also been used. That is the complexity of plagiarism. On the Harper’s magazine, Jonathan Lethem wrote an article called The Ecstasy

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    Trip Gabriel's Article titled "Plagiarism Lines Blur For Students In Digital Age" Is a report on Plagiarism becoming a issue with the advancement of technology. Gabriel, former New York Times editor "...Gave up editing to return to full-time reporting..." Gabriel believes that plagiarism is at an all time high within colleges. a lot of kids don't even try to hide their academic dishonesty. Ranging from a student who "...did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page

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    In The Ecstasy Of Influence: A Plagerism, the author Jonathan Lethem attempts to decipher the difference between getting an idea that is influenced by another’s work, and plagiarizing somebody’s work. Not only does he discuss the multiple times in history where new ideas have been derived from other works, but he also attempts to discover where the line can be drawn between influence and plagiarism. Throughout the work, the author discussed what he thinks about adopting ideas and why some people

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    Many people have always had a desire to tell a particular story. Perhaps, it is about their early years or some never forgotten incident in their life that keeps coming back to the windmills of their mind. However, most people do not have the slightest idea of how to go about putting down their thoughts, diaries or simply compiled notes into something that is readable and ready for publishing. Actually, that is not a problem. A good, experience ghost writer, or writer collaborator, can help

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    In the written article, “Why Politicians Plagiarize So Often” by Evan Osnos it is very clear that plagiarism among individuals in the political world isn’t as uncommon as some may think. Throughout the article many well-known politicians were put in the hot seat and accused of plagiarism. One of these well-known individuals being Senator John Walsh. In the article it states that he was accused of plagiarism because, “…one of his graduate-school papers contained unattributed passages by other writers…”

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    Why Plagiarism Is Wrong

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    What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is very serious. Plagiarism is when you copy or take someone else’s words or thoughts and then you use them for yourself. Such as when Chris changed the font it looked like his work. He also should have given credit to the the author. One way he could have given credit to the author is “the author states sharks are able to break bone with their teeth and rip flesh apart!”. There are several punishments for plagiarism. One is suspension or expelling. Many people Plagiarize

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    This letter exists to regretfully inform you that a passage in your essay on Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a work of plagiarism. Plagiarism occurs when one does not properly give credit to the original author where it is due. You argue that this passage is common knowledge and according to the University of Cambridge, “As a general rule, a fact can be said to be 'common knowledge' when: 1. it is widely accessible . . . 2. it is likely to be known by a lot of people 3. it can be found in

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