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Why Plagiarism Is Wrong

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What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is intentionally taking someone’s original work, ideas, and material and substituting the oeuvre as your own new and original creation; With or without the author's acknowledgment. Taking full credit of what was said, either oral or written without giving the reader a quote or reference to where you originally received the information is considered plagiarism.
This is inappropriate because you’re not really learning about the subject but only copying and pasting. How will you ever benefit from this? Taking someone’s hard work and dedication and just slapping your name on it. Plagiarism is one of many classifications considered as academic theft, fraud, deception, and disrespectful. Plagiarism is unethical and you're cheating yourself from learning and practicing on how to express yourself and receive honest feedback from your opinion. Once you get caught people will question your performance and integrity and that will build an awkward environment where you won’t be trusted. And now you’re competence will be questioned. …show more content…

This I very common among students that rather copy and paste than actually do the work and research. Or they have a short period of time to do the work or the lack of information they know about the subject. So they lack confidence and are pressured to plagiarise to pass and revive a good grade. Students face many things while writing an assignment from doing the research and sounding academically eligible about the subject; this could be a problem as well, their lack of writing skills, since you are graded for your grammar. So to avoid plagiarism I suggest studying the subject you are writing about, this will help you have a better understanding, take notes. If you do use someone else’s work cite, quote, or reference where you revived the information so the person can revive

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