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Plagiarism is when one person tries to claim another person's work as
their own without permission. Some people claim that plagiarism and forgery
are the same. But with forgery you are signing someone else's name and
plagiarism is when you take some or all parts of the work and say it is yours.
There are times that plagiarism is not done on purpose, in many cases you are
reading a source top get information for something that you have to write and
you end up using the information per se in your work.
You see a lot of plagiarism in the academic sense. Students buy papers or copy
straight from online sources as well as book sources as well. But students that
get caught plagiarizing are unusually accused for academic fraud and can lead
to suspension or even expulsion.
When you are dealing with plagiarism on the web, it can have a very negative
effect on your site. When search engines send out spiders to your site to see
what your site should be ranked and they see content that has clearly been duplicated
not only are you going to get de- indexed but the search engine may not be kind
to you in the future unless you clear up the site and add all new content.
If there is some information that you want to use from another place like a
website or a book or magazine then all you have to do is put quotes around the
information and make a footnote and give the person credit. Plagiarism is just
wrong on many levels because you tried to claim the work as your own. It is
really so simple to avoid, why people don't simply give credit where credit
is due.
If you like some information from another site and you don't want to
give the person credit then change the words around to make them your own. For
example if you see and sentence and it reads, Roses are Red and Violets are
Blue what you can do is add some words like We looked about the window and the
roses were red in color and the violets were a gorgeous color of blue. You are
still getting the point across if you don't want to give the original
author credit.
You really have to just put some thought into it. Some creativity and your
own words. The information was taken from some where else when the second person
wrote it so why not paraphrase. There is nothing wrong with paraphrasing and
you don't have to give anyone else credit.
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