Plagiarism

Plagiarism means that someone use or close imitate the language and ideas of another author and make them as their own original work. I feel that this act is very irresponsible and it shows the personality of the person who plagiarize. That person is very irresponsible and he should also be considered as a cribber.

Plagiarism can cause a lot of consequences, such as expulsion from a university or loss of a job. Plagiarism can also cause a writer's loss of credibility and professional standing. When writers use material from other sources, they must acknowledge this source. Not doing so is called plagiarism, or infringing copyrights, which means using without credit the ideas or expressions of another. Hence, we should avoid plagiarism.

We should caution:

1. against using, word for word, without acknowledgment, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, etc., from the printed or manuscript material of others.
2. against using with only slight changes the materials of another
3. against using the general plan, the main headings, or a rewritten form of someone else's material.

These cautions can apply to information you find on the Internet, World Wide Web, or other electronic or on-line sources and to the work of other students as well as to the published work of professional writers. Hence, I think it is fine that we find resources on World Wide Web but it is important that we state the source of the resources that we are taking. Therefore, we should not plagiarize and infringe copyrights.

Information and source on Plagiarism:

1. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism