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).
Lamott mentions about a "Downdraft;" you just get everything down on paper, an "Up-draft;" fixing and revising what you wrote, and a "Dental-draft;" finalizing everything and checking thoroughly very finely to create an outstanding third draft. Lamott then says that every time a writer is going to write they should repeat this process over and over
Plagiarism is a huge ordeal; whether it be a college research paper or an author writing a story that seems vaguely like another well-known story. What is plagiarism? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary plagiarism is: to steal and pass off the ideas or words of another as one's own, to use another's production without crediting the source, to commit literary theft, or to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. If someone plagiarizes in college, that person can end up failing the class and possibly be kicked out of school. If an author “plagiarizes” another author’s piece of work, what happens then?
Walden’s writing center offers great resources such as modules to educate students on the different forms of plagiarism and how to avoid them. Turnitin is also a tool for students to check assignments for plagiarism and correct them prior to submission. Writing Center Tools
In The Case of Plagiarism Plagiarism is when someone is writing a piece for a class and they take ideas from another person without giving that person any credit. It is against the rules to copy other people’s ideas, so in turn it is wrong to claim other’s ideas as your own. There are two types of plagiarism. The first type is intentional, it is where the person knows they are doing something wrong. The second type is unintentional, it is when a person forgets to cite their work or does not mean to copy an idea.
In the movie," finding Forrester," the writer illustrates ideas about how working class get their education, and how people judge other people by their appearance. Jamal who is a black man lives in the Bronx, the poor neighborhood and goes to poor School. He is an extraordinary basketball player and talented writer. However, he couldn’t go further more because he is a black and poor. He gets his way when he met Mr. Forrester who is a novelist.
Power and Possession In all the earthly worlds and stories, greed has always existed. Greed for power, possessions, and everything else. In Tolkien’s fantasy world of fairy tale and wonder, it is no different; that same element still exists.
Plagiarism is defined as the act of representing the work of someone else as your own (AERA, 2011; APA, 2010; APA, 2012; Cozby & Bates, 2012; Creswell, 2014). According to Fisher & Partin (2014), there are two forms of plagiarism, which are deliberate and accidental. Deliberate plagiarism is the intentional attempt to pass off the work of someone else as your own, and accidental plagiarism is unknowingly using the work of someone else without proper citation and referencing (Fisher & Partin, 2014). Commonly, plagiarism is thought of as submitting someone else’s work for an essay or school report and can include submitting the entire artifact as your own, or using a small portion of the work, such as paragraph or sentence without properly citing the original author (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Submitting someone else’s work in place of completing the work themselves is an ethical dilemma most students understand; however, oftentimes, students do not understand that it is equally important to cite the ideas of others even when expressed in their own words.
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).
Students at a college have rights and they are responsible for following college’s policies. Plagiarism—using another’s idea or work and pretending that it is their own without credits used by Currie and Pennycook might be one of the policies which colleges in North America are cared about in order to protect author’s copyright (as cited in Nall & Gherwash, Aug 12, 2013). Currie and Pennycook (Aug 12, 2013) also demonstrated that ESL(English Second Language) students uninformed of plagiarism which it could be an obvious punishment such as suspension and expulsion. Hence, some colleges which international students attend distribute their own policy involved in plagiarism to help them avoid plagiarizing. For instance, Seneca and George Brown colleges have their own policies involved in plagiarism.
Today you can go on the web and duplicate a great deal of information. Children who have grown up with advanced technology may even think that you are allowed to take information from the web in light of the fact that they don't try to search for a writer except in the case that they are researching a book. Donald L McCabe did some studies and found that "About 40 percent of 14,000 undergraduates admitted to [Plagiarism] in written assignments". A great deal of undergrads utilize their PCs to do unlawful things like download films and music so accomplishing something like plagiarism does not appear like a major ordeal.
Differences of punishment for plagiarism p.1 Different Punishment of Plagiarism in Fanshaw College and Centennial College Park kyuyong (Paul) Many universities or college students overlooked the plagiarism, also ESL students may not know of or that they can be punished for, is an offense in North American universities or college. It is dishonest writing in academic to use another’s languages or thoughts as your own. (Nall & Gherwash, Aug 12, 2013. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ ). For example, a student combines some copied sources from other author’s, while changing a few words and orders without quotation and citation, is called “Patchworking” which a term was introduced by Rebecca Moore Howard (as cited in Aug 12, 2013).
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.
but I just didn’t think my teacher would notice. So yes I can say I knew what plagiarism was but back then in elementary school we just used a different term for it; cheating. I define plagiarism as copying someone else’s work word to word and not giving then any credit. I believe that if I mention that the information that I was using is not my own work or idea then I shouldn’t be accused of plagiarism. With all said I who used to be an ESL student believe that the American River College plagiarism policy does not need any changing because even if someone doesn’t know what plagiarism is they still know what cheating and lying is.
By definition plagiarism is “the act of taking someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as if it were your own.” There are many different types of plagiarism, such as having someone write a paper for you, copying somers paper or just copying something right from the internet. Plagiarism is wrong in many ways because if you are caught you are only hurting yourself. You hurt yourself by having teachers or professors question who you really are. Plagiarism is cheating.
