An inappropriate practice which most likely occurred if a researcher takes credit for someone else’s idea and does not acknowledge the original source is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is cheating and categorized as theft.
EXPLANATION:
Plagiarism is an act of ‘stealing’ others’ idea. It is when researchers or even students copying the idea, words, phrases, or works from someone else without giving the credit in their writing. Actually, nothing’s wrong when researchers or students cite other sources for their work. Yet, if they don’t give the credit or the source of their phrases, ideas, or words, it is categorized as plagiarizing.
Plagiarism is not only done by the researchers. It is also done by the students, whether high school students or college students. The number is also high. Here are the facts:
•38% of undergraduate students admit to paraphrasing words, phrases, or sentences from a written source without providing a reference or footnote.
•36% of undergraduate students admit to paraphrasing words, phrases, or sentences from internet source without providing a reference or footnote.
•14% of undergraduate students admit to fabricating a bibliography.
•4% of graduate students admit to copying materials from a written source without providing a citation.
•3% of graduate students admit to turning in work done by another.
APUS Academic Dishonesty Policy gives this following list of the works which are sensitive to be plagiarized:
•Facts, ideas, or statistics which are not your own and not common knowledge, yet it is stated without citation.
•Direct quote from a source where it is not quoted marks, in-text citation, and reference. It includes paraphrasing a quote from a source and not using reference or in-text citation.
•Citing source without giving the real bibliographical information.
•Writing works or papers for others, such as students.
•Selling, copying, and purchasing assignments, papers, or exams from students to students, or researchers to researchers. It can also from the website to others.
•Submitting assignment, works, papers, or exams from the previous task to the new task.
•Copying audio, image, spreadsheet, PowerPoint, video, etc. without proper reference or citation.
LEARN MORE:
If you’re interested in learning more about this topic, we recommend you to also take a look at the following questions:
1.Inappropriate practice most likely occurred if a researcher takes credit
2.5 unbiased and biased facts about plagiarism by university students
KEYWORDS: plagiarism, how to avoid plagiarism
Subject: Social studies
Class: 10-12
Sub-chapter: Plagiarism
