Through her writing, Janice Fabro describes how plagiarism contains both direct and indirect negative outcomes. Direct effects of plagiarism include failure in a class, but
As I engage this unit’s Read and Attend assignments, I find that my understanding of plagiarism is not as fully developed as I had previously thought. Our Unit 3 Attend assignment shares that “in a general sense plagiarism may be caused by carelessness” and these circumstances frequently precipitate the lack of care required while writing (Bethel University, 2014, p. 11). The academic integrity tutorial provided additional information which I found valuable as well. Common themes within each unit assignment provide strands of continuity, while assisting with a more comprehensive understanding. It is my opinion, the type of plagiarism that is hardest for me to avoid is “plagiaphrasing”, also known as “lazy paraphrasing” (Bethel University, 2014, p. 12).
It's two o'clock in the morning, and a student sits in a dark, quiet bedroom, his face illuminated only by the glow of his laptop. The silence is punctuated by the rhythmic tapping of keys as he struggles through composing the fifth page of the twenty that are required for his research paper due tomorrow morning, only a few short hours away. The student begins the slow, grueling process of paraphrasing and citing his source, when suddenly, a sense of overwhelming fatigue falls over him. Giving up, he copies and pastes the information into his own document, scrambling it a bit before printing it out and shoving it in his binder. A situation like the one this student encountered is not uncommon, but the choice to plagiarize has innumerable consequences
Plagiarism As a student of Walden University, I am expected and held accountable for the integrity of any work that I write and submit. Walden University’s code of conduct on academic integrity states, “A student who enrolls at the university thereby agrees to respect and acknowledge the research and ideas of others in his or her work and to abide by those regulations governing work stipulated by the academic unit or academic program, and, in turn, the instructor” (Walden University, 2014). The first violation of academic integrity is plagiarism. According to Walden University (2014), “plagiarism is defined as use of intellectual material produced by another person without acknowledging its source.”
Honor is what is said to drive the decision for expulsion, but was it just for the school. The school’s response to plagiarism wasn’t unfair, although it seemed harsh the school did it with thought of the narrator and the school in mind. The line between healthy imitation and plagiarism can be drawn between someone claiming to be the story and someone
In this article, author Jodi Wilogren discusses how plagiarism at a school affected an entire community. In December of 2002, a teacher at Piper High School found a shocking statistic: 28 out of 118 sophomores have plagiarized on their biology project, which involved collecting leaves and researching them. A website called turnitin.com detected that one in four papers included sections copied off the internet. The teacher, Mrs. Pelton, gave the students zeroes on their project and forced them to meet with the school board to discuss their behavior. Mrs. Pelton had previously set rules and expectations for the class which stated that plagiarism would result in failure of the assignment and a note to the parents.
I, Archie Arias, suggest that the school implement a set of guidelines that help students adhere to national copyright laws. A set of copyright rules are important because they will help keep students safe and allow them to become better people in the future. The rules will also help protect and encourage originality. The rules that I suggest are the following, 1.) Plagiarism or things that violate copyright policies should be removed.
In the article, “What parents need to know about plagiarism,” Sandra Miller gives her opinion to The Washington Post about why parents need to know about plagiarism, in order to guide them while writing papers. Miller wrote about how her son was skimming websites and taking information without acknowledging/ giving credit to the source. By not giving credit to the sources, this would classify as taking one’s work and using it as your own. That would be considered plagiarizing because you’re stealing someone’s work. If the son was to give credit to the source, that would be giving documentation; therefore, meaning he didn’t plagiarize.
In Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty, Rebecca Howard used words like “robbed” and “kidnapped” to describe plagiarism. However, most emphasis had been put on the fact that originality is key to recognition and true authorship where she says “writers who want recognition must assert priority; to assert priority is to assert originality; and to assert originality engenders a fear of being robbed” (Howard 791). In UNCW’s policy, plagiarism is defined as “the copying of language, phrasing, structure, or specific ideas of another and presenting any of these as one’s own work, including information found on the Internet” (“Section I” 12). This definition is very different from Rebecca’s policy because it has included sources from the internet. Rebecca shows us that this issue of plagiarism only started recently because of technological advancements which brought about the big debate about authorship (Howard).
While the policy of the Seneca explains primarily punishments of plagiarism, the policy of the George Brown is more focused on avoiding plagiarism. For instance, in section “Appendix E” of the Seneca’s policy(“Appendix E”, n.d.) includes that the penalties stated in the Academic Honesty policy can be applied All students and gives a detailed information regarding penalties of plagiarism. On the contrary, in section “Avoiding Plagiarism” of the George Brown’s policy(“Avoiding Plagiarism”, n.d.) states that regardless of intentionality, the consequences of plagiarism are harsh and provides external links and tutorial involved in a guideline for prevention of plagiarism as well. In other words, Seneca’s policy explains the gravity of plagiarism, whereas George Brown’s policy more considers students not to commit
There is one professor who criticized the punishment policy of plagiarism which is running in most universities and college. He mentioned that We can think that plagiarism is a heavy guilty, but in the reality, it is punished lightly because professors does not want to punished their students, so they just reduce the students’ grade or deduct mark. (Pettigrew, Dec 13, 2013. Http://www.macleans.ca/education/university/what-punishment-for-palgiarism/ ). There are differences to apply the
In any school you have attended, plagiarism is a situation that a writer should not put themselves in under any circumstances. When reading the essay “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell gave insight into the flaws of plagiarism that writers may not have thought about before. The first being that plagiarism is never acceptable (927). The second issue with plagiarism is recognizing the differences that can or cannot “inhibit creativity” (931). Being inspired by another person's work can help and guide you to build your own ideas, but simply taking their work and claiming it as yours is not permitted.
Pat Currie and Alastair Pennycook (2012)said that plagiarism has been found that an academically serious problem around North America, which causes negative consequences for all kind ofacademy(as cited in Nall & Gherwash, 2012). It indicates many post-secondary institutions should consider how to handle this issue to acquire the best result through teaching. They have made policies and have punished offenders. Seneca college and Conestoga College were chosen to know about it. While there are differences in the policiesbetween them, writing about other’s works using your own words is one of the most important aspects of academic integrity.
Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty Rachel Graff Learning Strategies Professor Bronkar Date July 23rd, 2015 Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty The purpose of this assignment was to get a better understanding of plagiarism, academic dishonesty, and how to ensure the work I submit is my own. As a student at Franklin University I need to know what constitutes academic dishonesty, which includes plagiarism. We were asked to answer some key questions to enhance our knowledge of the policies and procedures in place at Franklin University as well as find ways to avoid plagiarism.
Seneca and Oxford have good definitions about plagiarism. Oxford’s policy gives more definition about plagiarism, such as forms of plagiarism, gives examples of plagiarism and demonstrates common mistakes and safe cases. It also explains why it’s important for students to know why students should be aware of plagiarism (Oxford University, 2016). On the other hand, Seneca’s policy pointed direct to what they consider plagiarism. It contains the main idea, description and examples of plagiarism but does not provide an exhaustive summary offence (Seneca College, Appendix E, 2015 - 2016).
