3. Fact – Internet plagiarism comes in different forms.
Plagiarism is not merely the act of copying another author's
work word for word. It can also arise from the following
acts:
1. Downloading of topics related to your assignment and
submitting it as if you were the original author of the work.
2. Buying or stealing the work from others and saying that it
is your own work.
3. Using significant ideas (or copying these concepts) and
then present them as your own.
4. Too much reliance on other people's material without
citing your references. (2010)
4. Quite often the problem that arises is that students are not sure what plagiarism is.
5. In a recent article about college students and plagiarism, a director
noticed that more cases of plagiarism was occuring, and she
assumed that this would be the year where more cases would
arrive. The following paragraph was taken from the article:
Ms. Mitrano said plagiarism has not been a topic that
colleges addressed institutionally—unlike issues such as student
drinking and campus downloading, which are discouraged during
orientation sessions and other campuswide forums. Other than
buying tools that help professors check for plagiarized papers, she
said, colleges have largely left it up to individual professors to
teach students the expectations regarding original work. ―A lot of
students are plagiarizing because they think no one is talking
about it,‖ the administrator said. (Young, 2010)
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wir
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more-to-teach-students-
about-plagiarism/26250
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8. Connection has to made, where one understands how to
use the resources and material that are available.
11. Resources
1. 3 Important Facts about Internet Plagiarism,. ND. Retrieved
on 1/5/2012.
2. Young, J., (April, 2010). Should Colleges Do More to Teach
Students About Plagiarism? The Chronicle
Editor's Notes
The hardest thing about Plagiarism is actually understanding it and knowing the measures to take to avoid it from happening.
Plagiarism can be defined in many different ways, but to sum it up, it is when you take work or words and use them in papers or in speeches and you do not site where you have gotten the sources or information from. It is stealing and their can be major consequences from it. Many students have been expelled in such cases and many have failed as a result of it. The first part in avoiding plagiarism is to first understand what it is.
