The document discusses copycatting and plagiarism. It notes that while copying text from books was once difficult, the internet has made plagiarism much easier through access to pre-written essays and assignments. However, over-relying on copying reduces innovation and students' confidence in their own abilities. The document suggests developing good time management skills, using the internet for research but not replacing one's own work, and gaining parental support to avoid last-minute panics that can encourage plagiarism.

2. An old educational joke says that if student
consults one book for an assignment.
That’s plagiarism but if it’s two books, that’s
research.

3.  Or should we just say that it actually
distinguishes between the foolish and smart
copycats….

6.  A person who does the same thing as
someone else
 A person who adopts the behavior, style etc.
of someone else
 This term is also known as Plagiarism.
 Plagiarism means to use someone else’s
work without permission or giving credit. It is
one of the many aspects of being a copycat.

7.  Not all the thieves lurk in dark alleys and
parks. Some sit with their faces lit by the
glow of their computer monitors, copying,
pasting and printing

8.  Do you agree that you are a copycat ??
 If someone asks me, I would say yes I agree
that I am a copycat too…

9.  Copying has always been around, like in
past people copy text from a book
laboriously but rise of computers and access
of internet have made plagiarism so easy.
 Pre-papered essays, assignments are
available on internet students not even read
that. They just copy it.

10.  Another case is that studentstake picture of
someone else’swork and share them
witheach other using social medialike on FB,
what’s app ,twiter and many more.

11.  Internet is growing in leaps and bounds and
its means content is too being generated in
large volume.
 But hang on, is content being generated or is
it being reproduced?

13.  Pressure to succeed.
 Lack of skill of time management.
 Solved assignments available on net and
free of cost.
 Desire to have idealistic body shape,
dresses, hairstyles, jewelry etc. like
celebrities.

14.  It kills innovation and creativity.
 Students loose their confidence.
 They remain unaware of their skills.
 They become dependent on internet.
 If teacher assign them a difficult topic, they
don’t think about it, discuss it with friends
and don’t understand it deeply.

16.  Develop a good academic work plan.
 To use internet as an option not instead of your
brain.
 Teacher should be able to detect copied contents
using anti-plagiarism software like Copy Catch
Gold.
 Parental involvement: Help students at early age to
organize and plan their work, as to be panic at last
minute can cause problems.
 Tell importance of self writing

18. Let me explain you how it is advantageous for you
and how it is harmful.
 If you are coping an app’s coding to register this
app with your own name having same features.
It is not coping, I’ll give it the name of stealing in
a sense.
 But if you copied the code for just making better
app then that or adding advanced features, or
whatever you did for making it more attractive
then this type of coping is good.

19.  It helps in raising awareness at global level
such as ALS Ice bucket challenge.
 On Instagram 3.7 million videos uploaded
with the hashtags #ALSicebucketchallenge
and #icebucketchallenge.
 As a result from 29 July to 28 August this
year ALS received $98.2m compared with
$2.7m donated during the same period last
year.

21.  Taking the help of the internet isn't bad, but
one should use it as a guide instead of using
it as a source of copying the content.
 Instead one should understand the content
on the web and then try to explain it in one’s
own words.
 This would help an individual to gain
confidence and help him attain his goals.