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    “When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism but when you take it from many writers it's research,” said by Wilson Mizner who was an American playwright. In the 21st century, plagiarism can be easily obtained with the technology we have today. Plagiarism is wrong and people don't realize that they are doing it. Many of our trusted new outlets plagiarize by not citing where they got their information from, students are unaware that live streaming and other uses of technology activities without

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    Plagiarism Vs Seneca

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    plagiarize another’s work from the internet either intentionally or not. Plagiarism was defined by The University of Souther Mississippi “the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own.” (What is Plagiarism, 2015). Plagiarism occurs very often in schools. “more than 1.000 will be accused of plagiarism.” ( Emma Teitel, November 8, 2011 ) Schools have penalties for plagiarism of their own, but the previous penalties show that very weaker than

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    MEANING According to Paul Goldstein “Plagiarism occurs when someone-a hurried student, a neglectful professor, an unethical writer-falsely claims someone else’s words, whether copyrighted or not, as his own. ‘’ In the past imitation was considered a compliment. As said by “Aristole” “imitation is natural to man from childhood, and the first thing that he learns comes through childhood”. INTRODUCTION Things changed from the seventeenth century when writing became an occupation. It was then considered

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    According to Shahabuddin (2009) plagiarism is an unethical problem that affects the academic community and presents a serious problem to society. For example, if a student engages in unethical practices, such as “cheating or plagiarism” the student may be charged with an academic integrity violation and could face serious consequences, including failure of the course and dismissal from the university (University of West Florida, 2012). Therefore, to prevent plagiarism in the academic community, institutions

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    Why Plagiarism Is Bad

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    What is Plagiarism? “To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source” Plagiarism is showing the idea of using someone else's work and making it as your own. For example if you were to use a quote that you got offline in our own paper and did not cite it from the source. That would be considered plagiarism. Possible Consequences There are differents types of levels that come with plagiarising. “Some of these are personal, some are professional and some are legal

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    The plagiarism tutorial taught me three things. The first thing that it taught me was APA format requires the citing of paraphrased material to be different than the citing of directly quoted material (Jackson, 2017). This is helpful to me because in my last class I was citing my paraphrased material like it was directly quoted. The second and third thing it taught me was there is a better way to use paraphrasing as a tool to avoid plagiarism and that there are six different types of plagiarism (Jackson

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    Plagiarism in an Academic environment In the Academic world today, the rising incidences of plagiarism are putting more schools and universities on high alert, and zeroing in on how to detect and prevent it. Academic institution’s often have a Student Code of Academic Integrity. Students, whom are caught cheating, can be given warnings, bad grades or even expelled out of school. Today, information is flowing freely and with ease through the Internet. Having this option would make students

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    Plagiarism in the Classroom Plagiarism has long since been an issue- especially in the classroom. Students try to pass off other people’s work as their own, sometimes stealing ideas, other times even entire papers. In Melissa D’Annunzio’s Ted Talk, “The Punishable Perils of Plagiarism”, she illustrates the severity of plagiarism through an animated video. In the video, there’s a fake department in charge of tracking down people who plagiarize and then throwing them in jail. By making up this scenario

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    Plagiarism in College Writing Introduction Plagiarism occurs in many forms. Self-plagiarism and inadvertent plagiarism are two forms of plagiarism. Students plagiarize for many reasons. Self-plagiarism is a form of plagiarism that is difficult to detect and often over looked. Inadvertent plagiarism is often caused by sloppy work and poor citation preparation skills. Proper education and practicing citations along with the use of online tools will assist the student in

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    Plagiarism and the Internet Essay

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    Plagiarism and the Internet Plagiarism is a major problem in colleges around the world. In a study by the Psychological Record, it was found that at least thirty six percent of undergraduates have confessed to plagiarism (Statistics, 1). Plagiarism is the unethical act of stealing ideas, thoughts, and feelings from others without giving the author proper credit. Today, it has become such a serious issue that there are resources available for teachers to identify plagiarism and the

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