According to Oxford Dictionary,
plagiarism is defined as ‘taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them
off as one's own'. On the other hand, Merriam-Webster Dictionary defined it as
‘the act of using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to that
person’. Even though it was indicated in a different way from each other, both
meanings convey the same thing: plagiarism is an act that is being credited for
something made by someone else.
Sometimes, students, or even
professionals plagiarize on a purpose out of their present situation. They are required to publish their works on a
limited amount of time but do not have the ability to compose credible works. They
lose their faith in
writing and its procedures that they plagiarize others to supply what they
needed. On the other hand, people imitate the works of others simply because
they lack moral values. Another
reason is they have confidence that they will not be caught. While there are a
lot of resources people found on the Internet which makes it easier to find something
to imitate and make one’s work, that same method is used also to recognize
people who just stole other’s work.
Moreover, to escape plagiarism,
most experts said that we must take responsibility to make an act if we know someone
who do these constantly. It is not good if we knew someone or an institution that
we respect plagiarizes work of others. Not telling the case of plagiarism is equivalent
in doing it yourself. In spite of everything, we are supposed to be accountable
in our own studies, but we must also make sure that we are not up to steal someone’s
ideas. The following are some of the suggested strategies to avoiding plagiarism:
- Understand
the real nature of plagiarism. Make some researches in order to understand
it more.
- Credit
the sources that you used in your study.
- Revise the text that you have seen in other’s work—even if your article is not as good as the original author’s, writing in your honest way is far better than plagiarized one.
It is really important to give credits to the people where someone got the idea. Sure thing that no one was get sued
from a study for having too many references, right?
Sources:
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/242/466
http://wpacouncil.org/positions/WPAplagiarism.pdf
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