What is Plagiarism and Why Do People Do It?

7 What Is Plagiarism And Why Do People Do It

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Ideas and knowledge put down in writing represents intellectual property of the author and if one draws from such works he or she need to pay tribute to the author . This is especially the case in academic writing among English . Failure to recognize the original author through appropriate citation is plagiarism . It means that one hands-in another person work and assuming ownership (Edlunds , John , R ) other societies such as Chinese detach on author

from his work and in such a case plagiarism may not occur . The American writing society view plagiarism as academic dishonesty as it does not reflect an individuals abilities Plagiarism varies in the degree of originality from exact copies paraphrasing to restructuring without proper referencing . Edlund puts forward three types of plagiarism academic policies . The most intense occurs when a student hands-in work fully done by another person . One borrows , downloads or purchases a similar fixing his or her name on it assuming ownership . Edlund notes that most students fail in time management or are sluggish when tackling assignments with short language masterly . They opt for an easy way-out by handing-in another persons work . They have no input in the entire work

Edlunds point out that though plagiarized work carries many telltale signs , professors are unwilling to act on suspicions that would breach the student-instructor trust . The instructors may over time develop skills in detecting plagiarized work . He notes that such works are rather obvious due to incriminating evidence or very superior quality of work above a student 's abilities . The student is also unable to discuss the assignment handed-in

When detected , Edlund notes that the student fails in the exam and faces expulsion . He advises students to organize themselves better and to seek assistance from the Writing Center whenever they encounter problems

Edlund gives lifting portions of different works available online and placing them together to form a full as the second form of plagiarism . The student then claims ownership of the while his input is only pasting other people 's idea in the single . While it may represent some form of research it is actually plagiarism the writer claims ownership of the ideas . The is not harmonized and sophisticated making detection easy . Edlund likens such to research notes used to complement one 's ideas

He points out that such work if detected would earn the student an F grade or one may get away a revision request . He advises the writer to delve deeper into the and come up with own ideas supported by the research points

Edlunds presents failure to appropriate paraphrase someone else 's work as the last form of plagiarism prompted by failure to fully understand the . Replacing keywords in an idea with synonyms while retaining the original sentence structure or retaining keywords but restructuring the sentence . While it may not be punishable it shows over-reliance on the original...