Plagarism
PlagarismPlagiarism
Plagiarism refers to the presentation or submission of the work of anotherwithout citation or credits, as your own work. Whenever the thoughts, words,drawings, designs, are copied and displayed as your own work this is
plagiarizing. Using others direct quotation or paraphrasing, the author and the
source must be clearly identified through the use of proper referencing. (i.e..,footnotes, endnotes) (Meltzer 2)
The Internet has provided new avenues to plagiarism: Cut-and-paste
plagiarism. This is when you highlight a portion of a paper, then paste it to your own. This procedure is very common and very easy to anyone who has access
to the internet. (Johnston 98) You can also find websites offering you free term papers, essays, book reports, and research paper written by others an posted on websites. Hiring someone over the internet is another example. (Johnston 106) You can join the club for a certain price yearly or monthly, or you can pay per page for your written paper.
Students in high school and universities are the most likely to submit
plagiarized papers, such as essays, book reports, reports, research papers, and
term papers. On most university campus', up to 75% of students admit to some
cheating. (Follette 87) Students believe that few cheaters are getting caught and those who do, punishments are very lenient. Lower levels of cheating are foundwhere the primary responsibility for academic integrity has been placed in the hands of students, generally through an honor code. (Johnston 201)
Students who plagiarize generally fall into two categories. The first
includes those who have difficulty writing correct, coherent essays. They may
never have received good instruction in writing; they may never have done much
writing; they may not be native speakers of English and have difficulty writing
in English. (Meltzer 119) Whatever the reason, they find that after working long
and hard, they still receive a low grade on their writing. Out of frustration and fear, they may plagiarize an essay, copying it word for word or making only a few slight changes in the wording. (Follette 214)
The second category consists of students who, though they can write well
enough, find plagiarism tempting. Generally, these students either fear getting a grade that is lower than the one they or their parents expect them to get, or have fallen behind in their course work and feel they do not have time to write an essay. (Meltzer 120) They may feel that they cannot handle the assigned task or that they don't have any good ideas on the subject.
Even good students occasionally fall behind in their course work. When
this happens, you should discuss the matter with your teacher. He or she may
penalize you for submitting work late, but late work is preferable to plagiarized work. (Johnston 229)
Teachers can detect plagiarism in a numerous amount of ways....
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