Plagiarism Prospective

By admin | September 4, 2010

Plagiarism is generally an illegal practice of taking someone else ideas, data, the language, illustrative material, images, or writing, and presenting them as if they were your own. It over all give a bad impact to other person most probably he or she knows from where you cut and paste this material and if you ever caught to do that you become doubtful for your whole life in front of your social circle .They won’t believe you than rest of your life…

If you have your own work and some one else work in the same document use different ways to highlight the others work and make clear difference between yours and others work. Give a proper reference of the source and put quotation marks around all of the words or paraphrase and reference .In that way you won’t mix them with your work.

Some times it helps students to find the material they need quickly. It is not bad to copying something if you properly tell the source and reference of it.

If we taking Plagiarism in the positive sense.  It can be helpful for the students who are scared of breaking the laws and for this sake they keep their minds on a working process to complete their works and generate their own ideas because they know that, this is easy now a day to catch the person who plagiarize. So if they copy anything for their work from anywhere they provide the proper source and reference

The biggest consequence of plagiarism really is quite simple. College assignments are often intended to strengthen your ability to think. If you steal someone else’s ideas, you never learn to come up with your own. The fear of Plagiarism sometimes helps people to try their best to generate their own ideas, works, and visual arts.

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Plagiarism Software Available Online

By admin | July 21, 2010

Plagiarism in one of the assorted forms of corruption and is getting very common with the passage of time. In old times, people were in search of discovering or inventing something new. People used to work hard and put their own efforts to find a solution to their problems. However, nowadays people are getting used to easy escapes. Without putting any effort from their own side, they go for the options that are far more convenient. Instead of coming up with new ground-breaking ideas, they are learning to get shortest routes. Plagiarism is one of the main causes that will never allow us to grow.

Plagiarism can be of different kinds. Plagiarising is stating the work of someone else as your own. Plagiarism is most common with students. Instead of doing it themselves, students prefer copying it from a friend, or they search the stuff over the internet and copy the content as it is. Lack of interest can lead a student to commit the crime of plagiarising. The higher level of plagiarism is where professionals develop the new strategies for their business, and before they could use them, they come to know that the competitor has already taken the idea. This form of plagiarism is on professional level.

A lot of websites on the internet are available, on which the material can be filtered so that it can be seen as to how much of the content has been taken from the there. Even in schools and universities, it needs to be checked because the habit of plagiarism is developed at this very level. Internet access is easily available to everybody now; therefore, the ratio of plagiarism is increasing very rapidly.

It is very important to avoid plagiarism, and there are various ways through which it can be avoided. Creating awareness among the people is one of the ways to make people understand that plagiarising any kind of stuff is a crime. When it comes to students plagiarising in universities and schools, their time span of submitting assignments should be increased so that they can have more time to concentrate, and the plagiarism can be avoided. If a teacher gets to know that a student is plagiarising, he will automatically lose the confidence in the student, which is not good. There are few plagiarism detection tools available online.

People plagiarise because a lot of content on the internet does not have copyrights reserved. The most common question that people usually ask is the definition of the Copyright laws. Such laws exist to secure your stuff over the internet. Whenever you post something on the internet, make sure that you get a copyright on your work so that it becomes legally yours. The main purpose of copyright law is to lessen the chances of plagiarism, and it has been successful in contributing to achieve it.

A lot of software is available on the internet to find out if the content has been taken from some other websites. We all know that plagiarism is being practised on the daily basis and some serious measures should be taken to stop it so that the credit of the things can go to the actual content writers and not to just anybody.

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Plagiarism- An Ethical Sin

By admin | May 7, 2010

Do you know how many pages are uploaded on the internet every day? I am sure not, the figure changes every day. However, an estimated report says every day millions of pages are uploaded on the internet. Do you know how many are unique? Well, most of them are plagiarized.

Some people do plagiarism intentionally while many others are not even aware what the plagiarism is. Let me tell you, anything uploaded by you on the internet that already has its existence in the same form on WWW is an example of plagiarism.

When people found about the power of internet, they started copying the free material and started using it for producing research reports, academic reports, articles, books, magazines and many more. However, they did it for many years until search engines had come on the scene.

When I started using internet, I found it great as I can easily copy anything to finalize my school reports. My teacher didn’t know if I have copied it and I got high ranks. However, this is not possible today. Plagiarism is a cyber crime and it is also an ethical sin as you steal the words of an author without giving him/her any credit for the effort.

The easiest way to find about plagiarism is to copy the sentence into the search engine and it will let you know all the websites where it is present on the WWW. Now, in this online world, where news comes on the scene as soon as it occurs, people want unique words from you. You become credible, if you produce new material for every subject.

In educational institutions and corporate sectors, you are appreciated only when you bring your own research in your own words. You can’t steal anyone’s ideas or words; you are successful and famous only if you bring something new. Be creative and use the internet wisely to always produce your own words for every subject in mind.

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Plagiarism And Academia

By admin | March 16, 2010

The word plagiarism comes from Latin plagiarius meaning kidnapper; it is the kidnapping of intellectual property, like stealing ideas, documents, assignments through copying/pasting and cheating such as copying of published work without any reference, copying of assignments, using the computer files of others, submitting the documents of others while showing as their own, documents from different websites, and using the writings, documents and ideas of others is called plagiarism.

Copying of assignments by students is also called plagiarism, which results in the failure in examinations and affects the practical life of the student; later he has to face many problems in searching jobs. There are many reasons for students plagiarizing such stuff, for example, their assignments are due and the time is very short, or they have to pass their exams, so they might plagiarize content for their success in examination.

There are different types of plagiarism like copying materials from some source and pasting it for use without any reference. Using content by only changing a single word is also an act of plagiarism. Changing the format of a paragraph or material, written by using the ideas of others, is also a type of plagiarism.

Plagiarism takes place in different forms, like the plagiarist can copy materials from text books, paragraphs, essays or internet.

In student life, plagiarism is done only to gain credits without doing anything and to get marks in examination without any efforts. But, there are many reasons for which we can avoid plagiarism; they are: motivation of doing work, the thirst to acquire knowledge, self respect, satisfaction of doing work by oneself, feeling of pride in achievements and realistic thinking.

We can avoid plagiarism by using quotation marks, making some notes during lectures, through paraphrasing, consulting text books or working with the help of professors through proper guidance, which will result in acquiring knowledge.

We can stop plagiarism through software and electronic detection and through penalties. There are many electronic methods for the detection of plagiarism for those who are doubtful of the authentication of documents on websites.

However, when plagiarism occurs in universities, there should be penalties for those students who plagiarize and also for those who help them. There should be some rules and regulations to investigate the cases of plagiarism, and when held, there should be penalties like charging them with heavy fines, informing their parents by posting warning letters, failing them in their respective courses, suspending them for few days, or in a critical case, they may be asked to leave the university, which would affect their future badly.

In this article, we learned about the ways to avoid plagiarism, and how to stop it through different methods of electronic detection and penalties. From these methods, we can improve the quality standards of education in universities. Students can research and study in better way, which will be fruitful for their future and for acquiring knowledge; it will eventually be helpful in searching of jobs.

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Plagiarism: Breach of Boundaries

By admin | February 25, 2010

Competing against your opponent with honesty is the best option rather amazing, but compromising on your integrity, self-respect and pride doing plagiarism is losing the chance to learn and know your potential, but as a cheater. If there is a talent to put others words into a paragraph or recreating any phrases in your own words in writing, then why not individuals own creativity? If one can think about selecting a good material from good articles, then why not spent time to write your own? In a way you are just letting your self down with nothing better.

Plagiarism, there is no sense of achievement; you are copying in term of cheating with your self and others; and losing your self-confidence unintentionally. The point where you can gain so much, you just put your self forward for get nothing, just being unethical, not loyal to your self, and thief, not the simple one, literature thief.

Do you know what word literature stands for? It is about Creativity, Some bodies’ uniqueness in style and imagination full of reflection for their own personality in words. Do you know what you are doing by creating replicate and being immoral in the society? Defiantly, not just destroying the chain of creativity and enthusiasm, you are also breaking down the foundation of morality and ethics.

The act of plagiarism in history is so full of unethical breach of copyright acts, when there is not even a law about it. Now time is changed, so do the ways of plagiarism is out of layman’s mind boundaries, new trends, new ways are now giving cheaters the edge to get unlimited access and unlimited information of hard-worker writers.

Fortunately, good news for the writers who are putting their thoughts in words and creating exclusive piece of writing and feel pride about it. Antidote for plagiarized work is out in the market. So the one who is plagiarizing your work is easy to catch and your work is safe under your name.

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Plagiarism On Internet: Being Creative But Conscious

By admin | February 11, 2010

How you discriminate author’s creativity from the duplicity of the cheaters work? How you explain the word plagiarism? Plagiarism is like polluting author’s creativity by adding unauthorized patchwork, sometime paraphrasing and directly imitating the original work then afterward claiming the ownership. This immoral act of theft and deceiving comes under copyright act supported by law and basic values of decency. In my opinion Plagiarism is a term for induced consciousness for the wrong deed of stealing, imitating, and duplicating someone writings, in a simple word it is called by so many a “literary theft”.

As the technology grows, by the side of positivisms, emerging aspects related with negative uses of this advantageous technology is increasing; also taking place within the environment you are living and working. You must have faced some unpleasant experiences, in real world where people trick people which sometimes barely tolerable; same happen on the provided facility of internet the world on your laps.

The Computers, internet, online, download, upload, and so many other words related with this machine we heard in our daily life now. Where we are having the benefits of improve knowledge in regard of hundreds of topics, consequently, we are lacking the physical activity to search the libraries and other mean of information to satisfy the literary thirst. Internet is the easiest source to upgrade information and knowledge by clicking and fixing your eyes on one screen changing rapidly page by page, copy and past.

All over the world people are doing different kinds of creative efforts, every body is trying on their level best to create something unique, like unheard and unsaid. In all this process would it be possible that you and I can create piece of work which sound and meant same along similar perspective. What would we call it a copy or just coincidence. But this coincidence would make you pay a lot, your dignity, your ethics and your liability. Are you ready to control these accidents or you don’t care what’s going on?

Style is something which reflects your inner self, your very personal asset and steeling it from you is an unthinkable act. But do you believe, in the world of up and coming science and technology, whereas lots of other unethical trait are taking place, as the same time steeling your originality is another factor. If you are an emotional writer with professionalism then your work and your writings must be an element of you. You must be very sensitive about the ownership of your writings.

Is it difficult to save up your self from the effects of plagiarism? Is it possible to overcome this problem of theft and dishonesty with self conscious efforts? Why people are still practicing such acts after knowing about the antidote of it? If we talk about the antidote of plagiarism, then we have the solution to overpower this theft ands make our self free from the tension of thievery, other then that, we can check our own piece of literature to avoid similarity.

Blessing in disguise, in my opinion knowing about plagiarism is beneficial in term of improvements as well as innovation which help you in your thinking and guide you through the motivational thought process. Here I am not supporting the idea of plagiarism, rather my point is how much one can write differently, how much uniqueness one can bring in his/her writing style. Plagiarism is the factor which could click you for new pattern of writing.  A person who plays with words know how it feels like writing productively and pleasure of having exclusive rights on self written paragraphs.

So better keep your focus on creating new write-up, rather getting affected psychologically and emotionally with these burglary scenarios. This is the duty of law, to develop conduct for check and balance in copyright law, for original ideas as intellectual property and the material lifted by theft and fraud. This is also a responsibility of the people who profoundly belongs to this informational technology through which they are transporting the awareness and providing the comfort in one place.

Avoiding plagiarism is not difficult if you are a person with honest consciousness, understanding the morals of life will guide you all the way through to find new ways to learn and take the charge of your self morality. You are a student or a teacher, a worker or a boss, a writer or a researcher, wherever you are standing in the filed of life you need to hold on a basic human values to avoid creating harm and unpleasantness in others achievements.

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Difference Between Plagiarism and Citation

By admin | November 15, 2009

Plagiarism and citation are often linked together in writing and publishing industry. Where citation is considered as intellectual honesty, plagiarism is taken as an intellectual offence. To clearly understand the difference between the two it is important that we should have a clear understanding about what these terms actually mean.

Plagiarism is derived from a Latin word meaning “to kidnap”. Plagiarism is referred as copying and using somebody’s words, thoughts and ideas and the like. The person, who copies, presents the copied work as his own and takes all the credit of the work.

On the contrary Citation is basically providing a reference. Citation is giving acknowledgment to any one whose research has been taken and utilized to support your work. Citation is usually expressed in abbreviated form. Its details are given in bibliographic references. Citation includes title of the source, author’s name, publisher’s name and the date of publishing. If the intellectual work is taken from internet the link of the website needs to be included in citation.

When you provide citation or proper references, you are actually acknowledging another person’s work. You are not only giving credit to his intellectual work but you are also admitting that you have utilised that person’s work to support your writing. However, when you do not provide references of the work, that you have used, you are committing a serious moral and intellectual offense – plagiarism. In plagiarism you basically hide the fact that you have taken help from some one’s work.

Citation brings you credibility and integrity, whereas, plagiarism can lead to monetary and physical punishments and even imprisonment.

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Plagiarism Defined

By admin | November 13, 2009

Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary defined plagiarism as “use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”

As stated by the above mentioned definition plagiarism is to copy, use and present work done by another person without giving proper acknowledgment to the author. At times people do not realize that they are committing a serious intellectual offense – plagiarism. People can easily become victims of plagiarism simply by the way they use a published material; not acknowledging the author, no citations, no references etc.

In Latin, plagiarism means “to kidnap”. So plagiarism is basically to kidnap or steal someone’s ideas and work; which is a public dishonesty. Although plagiarism is not taken as a criminal offense but it can lead to adverse consequences. Claims of plagiarism come under Civil Law. In some cases of plagiarism people are blamed for misusing intellectual property, and violation of moral rights.

Plagiarism is also referred to as intellectual or literary theft, academic dishonesty, academic fraud, unfair competition, fraud and even stealing. However, there is a difference in intentional and unintentional plagiarism. Unintentional plagiarism mostly involves inadequate citation, carelessness towards references and no acknowledgments.

Whatever the case, both intentional and unintentional plagiarisms are considered as unethical acts. Whether it’s at school level, for university research, in journalistic content or in an online publication; plagiarism is highly discouraged. The person who is accused of plagiarising loses his credibility and trustworthiness. In most instances people charged with plagiarism have to face suspension and termination from job.

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Anti Plagiarism Software – A Handy Tool For Teachers

By admin | November 10, 2009

The influx of internet and use of online educational resources has greatly increased the chances of plagiarism at school and college levels. Research shows that approx. 60% undergraduate students admit that they are involved in some form of plagiarism (intentional / unintentional).

Students copy text, words, and ideas and just paste them without acknowledging original authors and without proper citation. They use plagiarised material in written assignments, research works, reports and other assigned written works. To discourage the practice of academic plagiarism teachers and professors are relying on anti plagiarism softwares.

To rightly evaluate a students performance and to rate the students with accurate grades plagiarism must be protected at all levels. Teacher and academic tutors can easily detect plagiarism by using online plagiarism softwares. These easy to use plagiarism detection tools can check all forms of written material for any possible plagiarism.

The latest plagiarism detection tools and anti plagiarism softwares help combating academic plagiarism. These are handy tools for teachers and assist them to check copied text. Numerous schools, high schools and universities are encouraging their academic staff to use anti plagiarism softwares to detect plagiarism. A wide range of academic workforce relies on plagiarism detection tools to ensure authentic and original content.

It is essential to educate students about plagiarism and academic dishonesty. To motivate students to produce original work is a must in order to achieve academic goals. Once students get aware of the fact that their assignments and written projects have to undergo a meticulous plagiarism detection process, they will surely end up their plagiarism practices.

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