Plagiarism

When thnking about plagiarism many people don't fully understand what it is or how they commited such a horrible crime. In this brief blog over plagiarism I will disuss what plagiarism is, why avoiding plagiarism is important and finally ways to avoid falling into the trap of plagiarism.

Plagiarism is when you use somebody else's work and don't cite the author after stating what he/she said. If you still dont get what plagiarism is lets put it in modern day terms; let's say you have a speech that you are suppose do over dogs. Instead of doing research and coming up with a outline, a plagiariser who go to "youtube" find a video and use it word for word as if it's their own work.

When I was growing in my writing I was always that guy who wondered my it was so important not to plagiarize. Here are a few reason why it is:

• It's unethical


• A lost learning opportunity; when you copy somebody els's work, your not using your brain once you have found the information to express what the author ment in your own words.


• Diminishes credibility; when a teacher or whoever is reading or listening to one's work finds out that this work was plagiarized they automatically thinks of the person righting as a cheater.


• Penalties, because it's so frowned upon instructers will fail students for using somebody else's work as if it was your own.

For those of you who Plagiarize on accident there are ways to avoid plagiarism.

• Start your paper early, when a student procrastinates it's easier for them to fall into plagiarsing becasue they are rushing their work.


• Take notes while researching, with doing this it will help in not forgetting what you read.

In conclusion plagiarism is bad in all ways and form so dont do it.