Plaiarism

- Plagiarism

I got this article from BBC News for the 14th March 2007 . I have a keen interest since I am a writer and would like to be really updated on this matter

This particular article was featured to address the punishments that are accorded to the students who submit plagiarized works . The methods applied are different ranging from expulsion to fines , to deducting marks . However survey carried out by HEIS showed that this exercise is not carried out fairly uniformly ' to all students . There is the need to root out

plagiarism since it is an unacceptable behavior but it should with fairness whereby the punishment fits the crime . The survey showed that 99 of plagiarism cases were punished by expulsion . Two thirds of HEIs used formal warnings as the survey suggested , while a quarter getting the marks equal to the plagiarized amount docked . There is the use of fines which covers the least percentage (12 .7 , with amounts fined ranging from 100 to 1000

Dr . Fiona Duggan of the Plagiarism Advisory Service however said that there was the risk if penalties being applied in an unfair way with an example of one student getting an expulsion while another manages to get away unpunished

Plagiarism is the use of some one else 's ideas , as though there were own creation . It is copying and pasting what someone has composed with the use of citation to show that those are someone else 's words . It ranges at different categories someone might submit a whole document based on plagiarism and another may copy one or two sentences with all the rest being his /her own material . I think the amount of plagiarized work should be looked into when penalty is being given...