I was having trouble with my coursework, so I used the internet to find information regarding my topic, when I stumbled across a perfect specimen for the same experiment my coursework was about. I realised that in my own I had did not know to include various calculations (and other minor information) or how do them but this specimen did. I used it as guidance for my own explaining the calculations (how and why i did them) in my own words ect. Im feeling a little guilty as to whether this is cheating.If it was not for this specimen i would not have known to have included certain calculations which undoubtabtly raise my mark.
However I did reference it, and explain what I was doing in my words (and I do actually understand these said calculations)
2007-01-04 08:29:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I did indicate the source with the url address of the website and page at the bottom of the page, but it IS another coursework on the internet is this not an illegal source
2007-01-04 08:41:16 · update #1
No, you're safe. It's not plagiarism.
Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own.
The easiest way to not make it plagiarism is to cite the original source. Then, you can copy that other work exactly.
What you did is actually what the teacher likely wanted you to do. You found some helpful source, and then not only did you cite it, you worked it into your own example and analyzed how your calculations worked and stuff.
It's ok to get ideas from another similar piece of work. It'd be a lot harder to make advances in learning if we had to reinvent the wheel all over again every single time. That's where the whole plagiarism rule came about in the first place. It's ok to use other peoples' work as long as you give credit to them for what they did.
2007-01-04 08:49:06 · answer #1 · answered by Linkin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you did not copy the experiment exactly, write exactly what the specimen said for your description, and did not claim that you did all of this on your own, then no, it is not plagiarism. But, you must make reference from where you got it from or else it is still considered plagiarism. In the future, I would recommend doing your own experiment so that there is no suspicion of plagiarism.
2007-01-04 08:35:42 · answer #2 · answered by ▐▀▀▼▀▀▌ ►that guy◄ ▐▄▄▲▄▄▌ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is plagiarism if you do not credit the source from which you discovered the calculations that you otherwise would not have included.
At the very least, you should note that you received the idea from the source, but show your professor/teacher that you understand the equations.
2007-01-04 08:34:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based on what you've written, no, it's not plagerism. You used your own words and referenced the material that you used in your report. That is totally valid.
What might have been better is to uses 3 or more sources (depending on the size of the paper you did) and reference them. Keep up the good work!
2007-01-04 08:38:56 · answer #4 · answered by Peter S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you gave the source credit so it is NOT plagiarism. If you use more than 4 words in a row from another source without documenting or crediting it, then you have plagiarized.
2007-01-04 08:38:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jugglingmidget06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just make sure you cite your sources because you did not do this work on your own.
2007-01-04 08:42:19 · answer #6 · answered by Rosy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you used it and said that you did it, then yes. It's plagiarism. But if you said that you got it from somewhere else and that it wasn't yours, then no.
2007-01-04 08:34:54 · answer #7 · answered by All!c@ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since you indicated the source, it is not considered plagarism
2007-01-04 08:59:12 · answer #8 · answered by Allie H. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you cited it, it is not plagerisim
2007-01-04 08:37:16 · answer #9 · answered by RavensRule97 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋