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Plagirism

Author: robert | Posted: 24.07.2008 | Views: 40

Plagiarism

With every passing day new discoveries are made and the scope ofinformation is increasing with prospects that it is becomingdifficult for humans to handle information efficiently thusresulting in e-cheating and plagiarism.

Plagiarism can be defined as the deliberate use of anotherpersons work with reference to your name without acknowledgingthe original source. This is evaluated as cheating as one istrying to take credit for someone else's work. However takingreferences from someone else's work and mentioning his/her nameon each line copied as it is, is not part of plagiarism. It iscalled in text citation. Plagiarism is becoming really commonthese days in assessments that students submit for their collegework. This is considered as a serious offence as attempt likethis undermines the value of college degrees. It has been untilrecently that the managements have decided to impose harshpenalties on students who are found guilty of plagiarism.

Ways to Combat Plagiarism In order to avoid plagiarism, severaluniversities and schools have started using anti plagiarismsoftware's and other electronic methods to detect plagiarismthat can detect similarities and frequencies of words andphrases. In other schools the management also keeps track of thework previously submitted by students in order to ensure thatthe work is not copied from earlier years. In order to avoidplagiarism students are nowadays made to sign statements inwhich they accept that the work they have submitted, is theirown and the contribution from other sources has been properlyacknowledged. Because that's what being in a community is allabout, learning together and cooperating such gestures make thestudents realize the importance of their acts and portray thatthe management is vigilant about their work and that plagiarismor e-cheating can get them into trouble.

The central point is that when one is producing a piece of workthat would be evaluated, one must entirely cite his own work,written by him in his own words and containing his own ideas,interpretations, approaches etc. in case the ideas and wordshave been copied from someone else then it should be statedclearly with proper reference. Precisely its easy for a personto avoid plagiarism, all what matters is that one should puthis/her own effort into the material he submits for assignment.Students who deceive are more likely to become white collarcriminal thus depriving the hard workers from achieving theirgoal.

Conclusion Fighting plagiarism and e-cheating has become veryessential in these times especially because text from all acrossthe globe can be viewed through internet. People who fakesomeone else's work as their own must be caught because withpurloining someone's hard work they may pass in their degreesand probably get jobs, but they will have difficulty once theyenter into their professional lives. Secondly with vigilantsoftware working to catch plagiarism, students with realaptitude will come out in the light and the carefree attitudetowards studies could be warned against.

Bibliography

Zero Tolerance of Cheating and Plagarism. Taken from internet onSeptember 24th, 2005 from website:http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Norman/howareyou/Macro/Student.Info/plagarism.html

French, 2004. Plagiarism. Taken from the internet on September24th, 2005 from website:http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/resman/nrm/plagarism_and_copying

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