...Ethics & Plagiarism Self-Plagiarism is the reuse of significant identical or nearly portions of one’s own work without acknowledging that one is doing so without citing the original work. As Robert Barbato of E. Philip Sounders College of Business states “I can’t plagiarize myself-those are my own words”. I feel that there are no ethical implications for “self-plagiarism”. I believe this is an unavoidable situation for people to re-use portions of their own text. In my understanding of “self-plagiarism” this is just a reuse of “one’s own words” without acknowledging the prior work that it was originally used in. If this is your own word to begin with then there should be no plagiarism just not given credit to your prior work that had these ideas in it. There is no ethical issues along with self-plagiarism because it is your own words and thoughts. However plagiarism is a huge “no-no” and ethical issue. As Aristotle states in his Virtue Ethics, “What kind of person do you want to be? To knowingly cheat or plagiarize is to diminish the moral character of oneself.” This was a wonderful state, plagiarism is a type of stealing and we all know that’s a wrong act to do. Which brings me to Kautian Ethics, which compares plagiarism to stealing. Ethically, self-plagiarism and plagiarism are two different ideas and ethical issues. I believe there should be no ethical implications toward self-plagiarism since this is your own words and thoughts to begin with. However plagiarism...
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...Plagiarism Name Institutional affiliation Many people think plagiarism is copying or borrowing someone else’s work without giving credit, but ‘borrowing’ and ‘copying’ makes it look less serious than it is. According to the Miriam Webster online dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal someone else’s work without acknowledging the source, to commit literary theft , and to present as new old ideas that have already been used by someone else . It is basically stealing someone’s ideas, thoughts, expressions or even formulas and representing them as your own without really crediting the original author or writer. Use or non-use of quotation marks is also considered plagiarism. It is considered a fraud and an academic dishonesty. Plagiarism is defined in various ways in institutions of higher learning. For example, Randall defines plagiarism as “appropriating another person’s ideas or words (spoken or written) without attributing those words or ideas to their true source” (132). Watkins views plagiarism as “the use of another person words, works or ideas without attribution” (5). Princeton perceives plagiarism as “the deliberate use of someone else’s language ideas or other original (not common knowledge) without acknowledging its source” (Neville, 2010). Plagiarism can be committed in various forms, for example one can clone someone else’s work word for word without changing anything, or changing key words and phrases while still retaining the original context, paraphrasing...
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...Topic: Plagiarism Title: Student Plagiarism and the use of a Plagiarism Detection Tool by Community College Faculty Rationale This study sought to better inform community college administrators and faculty regarding possible factors that contribute to higher levels of student plagiarism and to suggest appropriate preventative or responsive interventions. The specific purpose of the study was to investigate a set of faculty related factors that may be associated with particular levels of suggestive plagiarism. Suggestive plagiarism is an intentionally chosen term to capture the fact that TII reports on submitted papers only and that may, but not necessarily, infer actual plagiarism. It does not assess a student’s intent or ignorance of the rules of source attribution. This reality of the tool is discussed at greater length later in this study. This study guide aims to help you to understand what plagiarism is in the context of academic work, and offers guidance on how to avoid it. Introduction Plagiarism, and the larger issue of ownership of the written word, is not as easy to define as it might first appear. Many writers on the topic of plagiarism and academic honesty have attempted to define the term. It comes as no surprise that the use of the Internet is on the rise and that the high school and college students of today see it as an integral and vital tool for their learning. The combination of the ubiquitous nature of computers, the internet and other information technologies...
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...Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's work to represent one’s own original work “without giving credit or acknowledgement to the author or the source that information is taken from”(Academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au, n.d.). This includes images, ideas and ideological frameworks that have been used or created by another person (Academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au, n.d.). Plagiarism can come in many different forms. For example: directly copying a sentence or significant portions of a sentence without quotation marks (Gethelp.library.upenn.edu, n.d.), “paraphrasing of another's work closely, with minor changes but with the essential meaning, form and/or progression of ideas maintained” (Academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au, n.d.), and even “preparing an original and correctly referenced assignment and submitting part or all of the assignment twice for separate subjects or marks”(Academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au, n.d.). Many of which we do not take note of or do not even realise are cases of plagiarism. Plagiarism is a major problem for people who do not know how to spot and avoid them. The most common reason is due to carelessness. According to Goebel, this comes about when people are not organised in their work which would lead to missing out references or putting the wrong references at the wrong places (Goebel, n.d.). This can be easily solved by being organised and systematic when doing research. To elucidate, when writing an essay or research piece, forward planing is crucial as...
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...to determine whether the students understanding regarding the subject. The Universities- The detection system help maintain the prestige of the degree. And the final output (student) is up to the standards made by the Universities. 2. What responsibility should a professor take to detect plagiarism The responsibility that, professors take to detect plagiarism as follows- • Introduction about plagiarism, and make student understand about what is plagiarism, what are the kinds of plagiarism and what are the consequences of plagiarism. • Professor may refer to the detection systems to detect plagiarism in a project or assignments. There are plagiarism detecting web sites such as turnitin.com, plagiarism.org and integriguard.com. • The one big responsibility of professor is to read the assignments carefully and see if there is no difference in the writing pattern in a single assignment. 3. When should disciplinary action be taken against a student? There are several methods to deal with plagiarism. But the real question is when to take those actions. According to me the actions can be taken in following circumstances. If the student is caught doing plagiarism in his first assignment, then the...
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...Are You Buying a Term Paper or Selling Your Soul? DeVry University The Ethics of Plagiarism There is much debate about the practice of students buying term papers and essays. Some students do not feel wrong in doing so. But more than just the easy payoff for not doing the work involved for the course, students not only cheat themselves out of the learning experience but they also cheat the author of the work. Ruggiero (p.19) states, “Once ideas are put into words and published, they become intellectual property”. Plagiarism is a form of theft and is a fraudulent in that it “is passing off other people’s ideas or words as one’s own’ (Ruggiero, pg.19). Plagiarism deceives the reader by allowing them to believe that the paper is a work of original thought. The dilemma of whether to buy a term paper or not would depend on how the person contemplating the action felt morally about it. Rules Based Approach For a fellow student who wanted to buy a term paper I would use a Rules based approach. I would appeal to them that cheating is wrong period. Rules about plagiarism are put in place for a reason, not just to protect “intellectual property “ (Ruggiero, p. 19), but to help students from the pitfalls of failing the class or the “dishonor and disgrace” (Ruggiero, pg.19) that would follow. I would implore them to decide to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. The ability to follow the rules does not just apply to academics. When an employer sees...
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...In theory it does not help the students in the long run, because the more they rely on technology the more they will not be able to go on ad live by themselves. Candace Gilmore and Charles Halcomb state that over the last ten years technology has been increasing in the classrooms dramatically. With the increasing technology teachers have to learn how to use them correctly and teach the students the same. “The fear that students will become lazy and rely on the technology at hand is not a big concern for many people” states Halcomb. The parents of the students see this as an opportunity to grow in their knowledge. What the parents do not know is that the students will come out to find the advantages of having technology and use it in the wrong way. They will slack off in class with texting, Facebook, and twitter. These few things are all apps on an iPod, iPhone, or any other smartphone. The teachers do not appreciate the usage of the cellphone in class. Diane Ravitch states that “We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically without a quite a lot of knowledge to think about.” Ravitch is a research professor of education at New York University (303). Professor Ravitch has published numerous books such as The Language Police: How Pressure Groups restrict what...
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...Gallo Personal Skills and Development What is Plagiarism? We all grew up hearing it in our sleep, “Make sure you cite your sources!” seemed to be the slogan of every teacher we had. Throughout elementary and high school, teachers made it very clear to students that it was wrong to take credit for work that wasn’t theirs. But did students really understand what plagiarism is? Some examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to, copying and pasting another author’s words, stating an unknown or controversial fact and not citing it, or simply taking another author’s work as your own. Plagiarism is defined by Oxford Dictionary as “the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own” (Oxford Dictionaries). Northeastern University defines plagiarism as “…intentionally representing the words, ideas, or data of another as one’s own in any academic exercise without providing proper citation” (Northeastern University). While these definitions are quite vague, there are more specific guidelines as to what most schools consider plagiarism to be, as well as the consequences of committing this act. Whether plagiarism was intentional or not, Northeastern University has strict and direct guidelines to follow in punishing the student for this act. The Northeastern University Academic Integrity Policy explains what Northeastern University considers to be covers cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration, participation in dishonesty...
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...rule and ordinances are mainly broken in the school conduct handbook or if you are a college student it may reside in the student handbook when you first start the journey to gaining valuable information to gain a career. In a student handbook there are specific rules that each individual needs to abide by like the clothing that is acceptable, the items that you may not bring on the school grounds or on the facility, and exhibits selective information regarding using someone's information in regarding plagiarism. In most schools before college they do not enforce the rules that are stated in the student conduct handbook which can lead students to be less responsible for there actions and will end in a student(s) not completing their own hard achieved success and just gives the student a basically okay to re conform some other student(s) work into their own so they do not have to work so hard then the person(s) they copied from to complete the assignment. When a pupil uses plagiarism there is a lack of creativity, responsibility, and not gaining the knowledge that you may need to gain in order for you as a student to be successful in the end. Students who copy and not completing their own achievements and only hurting themselves in the long run. When using an individuals work you are not using your own creative thinking and when you do your logical thinking can drop with every word you type or utter out of the mouth that is not your own creative logical thinking process. A student's...
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...students plagiarize improves making it seem like it is not ethically wrong. There are many factors contributing to why students think cheating is morally correct as well as there are many factors that can be done or taught to help students realize why it is ethically wrong to plagiarize. Many students grow to have the mindset that keeping good grades as well as being involved in many school activities are some of the few actions that are going to help them become academically successful in the future. This adds pressure to the social expectations of a student having to balance a healthy social and academic...
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...09March 2012 | Date of Hardcopy Submission | 09 March 2012 | PLAGIARISM DECLARATION (adapted from the declaration presented in the Rhodes University Plagiarism Policy: http://scifac.ru.ac.za/plag2008.doc) * I know that plagiarism means taking and using the ideas, writings, works or inventions of another as if they were one’s own. I know that plagiarism not only includes verbatim copying, but also the extensive use of another person’s ideas without proper acknowledgement (including the proper use of quotation marks). I know that plagiarism covers this sort of use of material found in textual sources and from the Internet. * I acknowledge and understand that plagiarism is wrong. * I understand that my research must be accurately referenced. I have followed the rules and conventions concerning referencing, citation and the use of quotations as set out in the Departmental Guide. * This assignment is my own work, or my group’s own unique group assignment. I acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is wrong, and that submitting identical work to others constitutes a form of plagiarism. * I have not allowed, nor will I in the future allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as their own work. ☒ | I understand the text above, concerning the contents of the Rhodes University Plagiarism Policy and realise that there are penalties for plagiarism as outlined in the policy document. | ☒ | I give my permission...
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...Plagiarism While reflecting on the overall learning objectives from this topic, plagiarism, the key takeaway for me is turning in another person’s work and the misunderstood boundary between plagiarism and research. I enjoyed learning how to recognize the various forms of plagiarism, Poor Disguise, Ghost Writer, and Self-Stealer. First, I view plagiarism as nothing but stealing the work of someone else which is wrong and displays academic dishonesty. Per Grand Canyon University’s Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching, plagiarism can be defined in many ways. Such as, the act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages there from, and passing the material off as one's own creation,...
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...Topic: "Academic Plagiarism" | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Length: 3 pages | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Font: 12 pt Arial | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Line spacing: double-spaced | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Margins: 1-inch | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Word count: minimum 275 words per page | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Citation: not necessary; if use any sources, NB:Please, follow MLA style | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Description: the essay should answer the following questions: 1) what is plagiarism; 2) what is your attitude towards plagiarism; 3) what are the penalties for plagiarism in US academic institutions; 4) how can plagiarism be avoided; 5) what tools exist to detect plagiarism and how do they work. You may also include something that you feel appropriate. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Penalties For Plagiarism In Us And Uk Academic Institutions Penalties for plagiarism in US and UK academic...
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...June 2014 Avoiding Plagiarism Dylan, an Arts student picks John Steinbeck's The pastures of Heaven to write a paper comparing fiction in novel and film. He has to be careful with plagiarism that is what his professor talked about in the class. Before begin writing hence, Dylan wants to know more about plagiarism. Dylan, conscious about plagiarism copies direct quotations from the source and places quotation marks around it. He knows that copying a direct quotation from a source or a paper without placing quotation marks is counted as wrong work which is a plagiarism. He also acknowledges the quotations by crediting the source by work citing. Picking up a statement from a source and crediting means avoiding a plagiarism. Readers will have a clear idea about where the statement is extracted from. Quoting and paraphrasing, both are fine as long as their sources are credited. He takes Steinbeck's ideas or words and puts them into his own words, Dylan paraphrases by crediting the source by citing it. Paraphrasing is equally important as quoting to keep in mind while writing a paper to avoid plagiarism. If someone's ideas or words are taken without changing words, and is not quoted and not credited then it is considered a plagiarism. There are whole bunch of things Dylan has to consider while writing his paper. He should not have his friend or someone to write papers for him. Using a paper written by someone else other than himself is a plagiarism. Submitting a paper...
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...Part III: Understanding Plagiarism Background: According to a 2002 survey by UConn's Department of English: Freshmen Writing Program: Nearly 30% of responding students admitted to having knowingly plagiarized at least once. Nearly 43% of responding students admitted to unknowingly plagiarizing at least once. It is because of this, that the FYE program designed the following assignment in an effort to introduce students to the concept of academic integrity, specifically, what is plagiarism, how is it defined here at UConn, and how you can avoid accidentally plagiarizing. The goals and objectives specifically for this assignment are to 1) develop a direct awareness of plagiarism and its responses, 2) continue to cultivate research skills, 3) increase participation and skills in leading class discussions, and 4) continue to develop critical analysis of written work. Steps for Success: 1. Pre-Test: Log into HuskyCT and take the plagiarism self-evaluation pre-test. 2. Initial Research: Investigate and read resources found on the Internet - both UConn specific (Plagiarism Resources http://www.lib.uconn.edu/instruction/PlagFac.htm , Freshman English Module http://irc.uconn.edu/PlagiarismModule/intro_m.htm ) and beyond (Talking About Plagiarism http://bedfordstmartins.com/catalog/static/bsm/technotes/workshops/talkingplagy.htm , Plagiarism & The Web http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm , Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize and Avoid it http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism...
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