Linggo, Oktubre 16, 2011

Plagiarism is a Crime! (thoughts about plagiarism)

-When I hear the word “Plagiarism”, the first thing that comes to mind is copying someone’s work without permission. According to the thesaurus it is infringement of copyright, piracy, theft, stealing. From the definitions, we already know that plagiarism is a bad thing and is illegal. My opinion about plagiarism is that only lazy people do this. When you copy and paste without giving credit to the author, that plagiarism and they can file a case against you.

Before, when the internet wasn’t that available and computers wasn’t widely used , students do manual research in libraries and do interviews, nowadays, with the availability of the internet (google, Wikipedia, etc) students do research and work with ease, and instead of making their projects/reports their own, they use COPY & PASTE. I myself is guilty with plagiarism because I used copy & paste specially in assignments that are due in a short time, but sometime its just a matter of ethics whether you’ll give in to plagiarism or not.

My thoughts about plagiarism is, if you’ll do this, its just your conscience that will haunt you because you yourself know what is right from what is wrong. So always think first.Remember, Plagiarism is a Crime.

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