Plagiarism

Plagiarism by definition from Dictionary.com was an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author.

Plagiarism is defined in multiple ways in higher education institutions and universities. Few example:

1. Stanford University sees plagiarism as the "use, without giving reasonable and appropriate credit to or acknowledging the author or source, of another person's original work, whether such work is made up of code, formulas, ideas, language, research, strategies, writing or other form."[1]
2. Yale College views plagiarism as the "use of another's work, words, or ideas without attribution" which includes "using a source's language without quoting, using information from a source without attribution, and paraphrasing a source in a form that stays too close to the original."[2]
3. Oxford characterizes plagiarism as the use of "a writer's ideas or phraseology without giving due credit." [3]
4. Brown defines plagiarism to be "appropriating another person's ideas or words (spoken or written) without attributing those word or ideas to their true source".[4]

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After a long definition and how some of the university define the plagiarism, here my main point:

To a lady in my plant design project group,

You as a person, a student and a group member that always told people that you aren't like somebody in the group, to plagiarize from the source and you will at least re-phase the sentence from the source.

Yupe, you re-phase it and yet, you did not credit it. 80% of your works are not credited! Since you did not crediting the work, i shall said that you are plagiarize it! Why I said so?

Here is the reason, let see how Council of Writing Program Administrators define plagiarism:

1. Submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and
2. Carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source

You said you used the plagiarism checker to check your work and there are nearly all is unique content. So, what? you proud of it? not for me!

The plagiarism checker that you use are based on the Google search result, just like you copy the sentence and put into the Google search box.

The checker can show you your content was unique and unable to search for the same content. What if you search using Google, you get similar sentence! This show that you just simply re-phased certain part of the sentence or just changed some of the words ONLY!

For me, you just another PLAGIARIZER that did not admit you are a PLAGIARIZER!

You can only call yourself not a plagiarizer WHEN AND ONLY WHEN you can proper cited your work to the source, re-phase and re-sentence!

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