Plagiarism

With every passing day new discoveries are made and the scope of
information is increasing with prospects that it is becoming
difficult for humans to handle information efficiently thus
resulting in e-cheating and plagiarism.

Plagiarism can be defined as the deliberate use of another
persons work with reference to your name without acknowledging
the original source. This is evaluated as cheating as one is
trying to take credit for someone else’s work. However taking
references from someone else’s work and mentioning his/her name
on each line copied as it is, is not part of plagiarism. It is
called in text citation. Plagiarism is becoming really common
these days in assessments that students submit for their college
work. This is considered as a serious offence as attempt like
this undermines the value of college degrees. It has been until
recently that the managements have decided to impose harsh
penalties on students who are found guilty of plagiarism.

Ways to Combat Plagiarism In order to avoid plagiarism, several
universities and schools have started using anti plagiarism
software’s and other electronic methods to detect plagiarism
that can detect similarities and frequencies of words and
phrases. In other schools the management also keeps track of the
work previously submitted by students in order to ensure that
the work is not copied from earlier years. In order to avoid
plagiarism students are nowadays made to sign statements in
which they accept that the work they have submitted, is their
own and the contribution from other sources has been properly
acknowledged. Because that’s what being in a community is all
about, learning together and cooperating such gestures make the
students realize the importance of their acts and portray that
the management is vigilant about their work and that plagiarism
or e-cheating can get them into trouble.

The central point is that when one is producing a piece of work
that would be evaluated, one must entirely cite his own work,
written by him in his own words and containing his own ideas,
interpretations, approaches etc. in case the ideas and words
have been copied from someone else then it should be stated
clearly with proper reference. Precisely its easy for a person
to avoid plagiarism, all what matters is that one should put
his/her own effort into the material he submits for assignment.
Students who deceive are more likely to become white collar
criminal thus depriving the hard workers from achieving their
goal.

Conclusion Fighting plagiarism and e-cheating has become very
essential in these times especially because text from all across
the globe can be viewed through internet. People who fake
someone else’s work as their own must be caught because with
purloining someone’s hard work they may pass in their degrees
and probably get jobs, but they will have difficulty once they
enter into their professional lives. Secondly with vigilant
software working to catch plagiarism, students with real
aptitude will come out in the light and the carefree attitude
towards studies could be warned against.

Bibliography

Zero Tolerance of Cheating and Plagarism. Taken from internet on
September 24th, 2005 from website:

http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Norman/howareyou/Macro/Student.

Info/plagarism.html

French, 2004. Plagiarism. Taken from the internet on September
24th, 2005 from website:

http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/resman/nrm/plagarism_and_copying

Alex
http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/plagirism-3350.html

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