What is your opinion about plagiarism?

Question

The fact that one can think for themselves especially about in depth knowledge of specific subjects.
And then writing your ideas down in an assignment during your higher education years is an abomination. This is the view of many university markers.
I have observed situations where a student had on the spot theorised about specific things with only basic exposure to the information.
Through elaboration of the basic content the student was able to infer additional data.
Wow ... isnt that amazing someone can actually think things through themsleves... well ... that just ... unheard of. At least thats what the general opinon seems to be in the uni environment.
The fact is that some people after learning the basics can make things up without coming across the same information of another. It is possible that two or; do i dare say it, more , can have the same ideas.. tell me your story

Answer 1

Anyone guilty of plagiarism is an absolute moron or scumbag. Why? If you cite it, it's not plagiarism anymore. You can take someone else's work, word for word, and it's perfectly ok as long as you give them credit for it.

Plagiarism has nothing to do with that long winded garbage that you wrote after the initial question. Most of it doesn't make sense. Many of the statements you made are far from true. I wonder if you actually have a legit question. I really wish Yahoo didn't do away with the thumbs up/down for the question itself.

Answer 2

Views On Plagiarism

Answer 3

I agree with pag, and I'd also add one other thing regarding the citation of ideas...

If the ideas expressed but not cited were otherwise expressed within the course materials (lecture, assigned text, etc), the professor is within his rights to accuse one of plagiarism, whether the charges are unfounded or not. He cannot know whether the ideas were original or came from the book, and if that was part of the assigned material, it should have been recognized in the first place and cited accordingly. This is not even about direct quotations (which is a lot more obvious), but just citing overall thoughts and ideas.

Answer 4

Lets see now, you've been accused of plagarism and are trying to come up with an excuse? The point is whether you attributed ideas, and especially specific sentences, paragraphs, and pages to the sources you took them from. Writing a paper about the same topic that somebody already wrote about isn't plagarism. Forming the same opinion that they did is not plagarism. Turning in their paper, or unattributed portions of it, as yours.... plagarism.

Consider this. Most students turn in multiple written assignments every semester. Ask your profs how often they find that a student plagarized. Knowing my grad school profs, its less than one per year. Students like to think that profs are stupid and won't catch them, but profs know how to use the internet and they can tell when something is written in a style that is completely different from everything else you've turned in. So, assuming that they catch most students who cheat and they only catch one person per year or less... Again, considering the same idea that someone else did and forming the same opinion that they did is not plagarism. Turning in a paragraph, several pages, or an entire paper that you got from a book, somebody else's paper, or a website without citing your source is.

Answer 5

i imagine plagiarism is a variety of robbery. it really is a fashion to make human beings imagine you created something and did a particular volume of work even as somebody else did. It shows contempt for authentic getting to understand and exertions. In some cultures, like historic Greece, authors paid homage to their predecessors by potential of using an identical plot lines or characters. in spite of the undeniable fact that, they did not plagiarize as they always extra an new area of the artwork. they did not faux that the tale change right into one hundred% unique.

Answer 6

if you use your thougts and some one else thoughts . it not plagerism.