This blog is a response to a task assigned by Megha Trivedi ma’am. This blog deals with Plagiarism.
PLAGIARISM
What is Plagiarism? Write in detail about its consequences, and forms.
PLAGIARISM
In simple words, Plagiarism means the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own or presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgment.
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
- to use (another's production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- to present a new and original idea or product derived from an existing source
In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.
The word plagiarism was derived from the Latin word plagiarius which means ‘kidnapper’ and to plagiarize means ‘to commit literary theft.
Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs-
Using another person’s ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work constitutes intellectual theft.
Passing off another person’s ideas, information, or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage constitutes fraud.
CONSEQUENCES
Research has the power to affect opinions and actions, and responsible writers compose their work with great care. They specify when they refer to another's ideas, facts and words, whether they want to agree with, object to, or analyze the source. This kind of documentation not only recognised the work writers do; It also tends to discourage the circulation of errors. But plagiarists undermine these important values.
The charge of plagiarism is serious. Plagiarists are seen as incompetent, and incapable of developing and expressing their own thoughts.
When professional writers like journalists are caught as plagiarists, they are likely to lose their jobs and suffer public embarrassment and loss of prestige.
Students exposed as plagiarists may suffer from severe penalties, failure of assignments, or expulsion from school, which might also damage student-teacher relations and undermine institutional standards for assigning grades and awarding degrees.
Students who plagiarize themselves lose an important opportunity to learn to write a research paper.
Other consequences of plagiarism are:
- Destroyed Student Reputation
- Destroyed Professional Reputation
- Destroyed Academic Reputation
- Legal Repercussions
- Monetary Repercussions
- Academic Penalties
- Poor Quality Content
- Career Damage
- Potential Legal And Criminal Action
FORMS
The most blatant form of plagiarism is to obtain and submit as your own a paper written by someone else.
There are four forms of plagiarism
1. Repeating and Paraphrasing wording
If we take/borrow the whole paragraph or words from the paragraph without documentation or without acknowledgment.
E.g- If we write the sentence from Shakespeare's novel, ‘ "Frailty, thy name is a woman." while writing our idea without citing the original text.
2. Taking a Particular Apt phrase
If we use/ borrow a particle phrase or word given or patented by a particular writer or initiator we need to cite the original text from where we have borrowed the word.
E.g.- The work ‘Chutnification’ is introduced very first time by Salman Rushdie in his work ‘Midnight’s Children’. So if we use this word we need to cite S. Rushdie.
3. Paraphrasing an Argument or Presenting a line of thinking.
Even if we don’t copy-paste a complete phrase or sentence and only take an idea and represent it with our words, it also needs citation.
How to know Plagiarism and how to avoid it. Explain
When you fail to cite your sources or when you cite them inadequately, you commit plagiarism, an offense that is taken extremely seriously in the academic world and is misconduct. Plagiarism is a very serious issue of academia. It severely harms academic integrity. Thus students and researchers are made aware of proper documentation. It can be only avoided by proper citation. Most universities use plagiarism detection software to uncover potential plagiarism and to deter students from plagiarizing. Academic integrity can be maintained by providing students with thorough orientations, required writing courses, and clearly articulated honor codes. By generating a uniform understanding among students and researchers that plagiarism is wrong
To avoid it the basic points that can be taken care of are:
- Practice ethical writing honestly. Keep honesty in all scientific writings.
- Crediting all the original sources.
- Use quotation marks wherever required
- Widely known scientific and historical facts
- Avoid self-plagiarism by taking permission from the publisher/ copyright holder of the article.
- Keeping track of the sources you consult in your research
- Paraphrasing or quoting from your sources (and adding your own ideas)
- Crediting the original author in an in-text citation and in your reference list
- Using a plagiarism checker (Scribbr, Quetext, Grammarly, uncheck, etc.) before you submit
I hope this blog is useful
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