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    Why Plagiarism Is Wrong

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    What is plagiarism? We are told in our early school days that plagiarism is wrong and should be prevented. We learn that it is a form of cheating and that there are consequences. Consequences can result in failure of the class and being expelled from the college. In Webster’s Dictionary plagiarism is defined as, “the act of using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit”. This means anything that is created by another person must be citied and given credit to the original author. Without

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    forms of plagiarism, including intentional and unintentional, or plagiarism that was committed accidentally, such as when a student writes down an idea that they read elsewhere, and did not remember reading, and plagiarism with intent, where a student takes material from a source and purposefully does not cite it, intending the content to be believed to be that students own work. According to Perdue University's online page regarding Academic Integrity, two kinds of intentional plagiarism are direct

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    Cheating and plagiarism are prominent in all situations that could be cheated or plagiarized; Cheating can be found in academic areas, in sports, in publications, etc. Cheating is integrated in academic setting, such as high schools and colleges. Cheating and plagiarism are even observed past this point, in work settings. In college and in every field of study, there’s so much cheating and plagiarism that it is almost an unavoidable issue. There are software programs, such as Turnitin, that are designed

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    equation was formulated to calculate the plagiarism percentage. Every student in the investigation cited their source wrong in some way. Some students even had a one hundred percent passage match with their source, which in most academic circles is plagiarism. Pecorari gives explanations for plagiarism: intentional, culture differences, and patchwriting. Addressing each explanation for plagiarism, Pecorari first breaks down intentional. Intentional plagiarism is hard to prove because only the accused

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    majority of kids do not know is that this is considered plagiarism and it is illegal. Plagiarism is something that is very common in today's world and although it is common and a great deal of people do it, it is still illegal and wrong Plagiarism, defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is to “commit literary theft” or “to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source”. What this means in simpler words is that plagiarism stealing someone else’s words or ideas and using

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    Plagiarism in the U.S. vs. the K.S.A Laws differ from one country to another. Every country has its own rules and regulations either in businesses or education, so depending on those policies; citizens develop different ways of thinking. There are hundreds of papers written everyday. Teaching styles and methods are different from a nation to another to suit the need of its citizens. Cheating and copying from other students or from an article without citing is a definition for the word plagiarism

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    Colleges or universities are institutions of higher learning, therefore higher standards must be upheld. When referencing plagiarism in dealing with the university level, various arguments can transpire. There are intentional and unintentional forms of plagiarism that occur often. Intentional plagiarism are blatant disregard for the rules. As taking someone else’s hard work and research as one’s own. This offense is the vilest and should be treated as such, with a stern disciplinary action.

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    Nowadays, plagiarism has become a widespread problem in academic writing. A survey conducted by Donald McCabe, revealed that 36% of 63700 surveyed undergraduate students admitted to “paraphrasing/copying few sentences from the internet source without footnoting it” (qtd in “Facts and Stats”). Two schools in North America, George Brown College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are quite strict about plagiarism. Even though each school have roughly similar definitions of plagiarism, they

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    Plagiarism in Colleges and Universities is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. This is one of the most crucial tasks for students that take online courses. This paper will look at the tools for detecting plagiarism and the pros and cons of using the plagiarism checker in the nursing curriculum. Most academic concerns are based on student morals. Plagiarism detecting tools are a better source related to website or internet plagiarism such as a student’s awareness of peer behavior. According

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    Plagiarism “Plagiarism is defined as the borrowing of ideas, opinions, examples, key words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or even structure from another person 's work, including work written or produced by others without proper acknowledgment.” - The definiton of plagiarism is taken from the mentioned link :https://www.ucmo.edu/student/documents/honest.pdf Is it ubiquitous in education sector ? Well ,Yes ! The internet is taken by storm on the number of research papers, articles and blogs on

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