plagiarism?

Question

does any one know what plagiarism is and have you ever done it and gotten away with it????

Answer 1

Yes, plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas and passing them off as your own, without giving the original person credit.

Yes, to my great embarrassment, I must admit I plagiarized once, back when I was in high school. The first half of the paper was my own, the second half was plagiarized. And no, I never got caught.

My brother taught high school, and he was an expert at catching people at plagiarism. Once he taught me his trick, I found that I can spot it fairly easily as well. It's also like a sixth sense with any kind of teacher or professor. There's actually software that can be used to detect it. 20+ years ago, when I did it, the chances of being caught were slim. If I were in school now, I wouldn't even dream of doing it. Teachers are much more aware of the problem, and there's technology to help them out if they are in doubt. It's just too risky. Plus, it yields absolutely nothing. You get a passing grade--so what? You didn't learn anything but how to cheat. That isn't a tremendously helpful life skill.

Answer 2

HI, I think that plagiarism is not good. I have used quotes and said that they are not mine and given the credit to the people whom have come up with it. The line is crossed when you use every singe little detail, even if you change a few words here and there to make it look different it is still not good. At school we must sign an agreement sheet for all assignments, that says that we have come up with this ourselves and if we are caught copying other peoples works (playgiarism) the we get no marks just a big fat 0. I think this is fair because then it is your fault for not having your work. Having a orignal that you have come up with your self is a great idea. Dont go taking some1 elses work and allways try to make everything your own! Hope that helped Love Tania (;

Answer 3

Plagiarism is using the work of someone else without giving him credit. And no, it is not sufficient to change a few words. If you are going to paraphrase, you must change every word in the passage except for proper names and articles such as the, a and an. Probably simple conjunctions would be okay also, and, or. but. That's about it. If you can't change a word put it in quotes and credit it. Even if you paraphrase you must give credit to the original writer for the idea.
I am a retired college professor and I hated to flunk students for plagiarizing, especially when I believed they didn't know what they were doing. I did flunk such students and your profs will, too. As Persiphone Hellecat points out you may even be expelled.

Answer 4

Plagiarism is the citing of an original work as your own. It is illegal and a serious offence. Anyone caught doing it could even be sent to jail! Plagiarism is an offence under most countries.

I've never done it nor gotten away with it before. I cite most of my source!

Answer 5

Plagiarism is putting forward some one else's work as your own without giving due credit to the original owner of the work.

Answer 6

Plagerism may not be a really big thing in high school but I guarantee you it's a big thing in college. In any college in America plagerism is grounds for being expelled. Try getting into another college with that on your record.

A lot of kids think the Internet is a great thing because it makes plagerism easier. Well Im here to tell you it works against you. It makes it easier for us instructors to catch you.

If I have had a kid in a class all semester who baslcally has the writing skills of a cave man and suddenly he hands me a term paper worthy of Einstein, a little bell goes off in my head. A couple minutes in Google, type in a couple key phrases from the paper, and I can usually print out a copy of the website the paper came from. Sometimes more than one. Or one of your interns can do it for you - catch their fellow students. And guess what? Even Yahoo Answers questions come up when you google. Don't believe me? Try it. It's the easiest way there is to bust you to catch you copying from here.

You staple them to the back of the term paper and make an appointment for the kid with the Dean and he is history. All of the parents money down the drain, student loans come immediately due and the kid is toast.

Once, I know of a professor who got a term paper turned in by a girl who swore she wrote the paper - only it was written and published by a friend of his. BUSTED.

Plagerism is no joke. You can go from being in college one day to working off big student loans in a car wash the next day. Is it worth it? Hardly.

So, if you are enjoying the life of plagerism in high school, count your lucky stars and know that you will not get away with it in any college in America. Of that I am quite certain. It is just not worth the risk. If you are a lousy writer, go to the school's writing center or write a bad paper and get a D, but dont plagerize. It's academic suicide. Pax - C

Answer 7

plagiarism is basically when you copy the work of someone else's and you take it as your own. This can go for homework, reports, music, inventions, etc. Have I? Mild forms but nothing that would get me in trouble.
Para-phrasing, however, is not illegal. Though it is close...It is when you take someone else's work and reword it a bit so that "techinically" its not copied but VERY similiar.

Answer 8

Copying anything and taking the credit for the work. Haven't done it. Wouldn't care to.

Answer 9

It is the acceptable blatant honest theft that masquerades as creativity in the Academy
Albert Einstein was the best known incorrigible plagiarist.
And he admitted that:
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

see:
http://home.comcast.net/~xtxinc/AEIPBook.htm

Answer 10

its taking someeone elses work and using it as your own. Yes I have pagerised and no, i was not caught.