Plagiarism

"Plagiarism"

What is plagiarism? Are you one of those who plagiarize? "Copying" and "borrowing" can disguise this serious offense. Plagiarism is stealing of ideas,use of another's production without even crediting the source, just somehow present as a new and original idea or a product derived from an existing source, and the most obvious thing to commit plagiarism is when you copy and paste the idea or the product it self and label it as your own.

The consequences of plagiarism can be personal,professional, ethical, and legal. With plagiarism detection software are so readily available and in use, plagiarists are being caught at an alarming rate. Once accused of plagiarism, a person will most likely always be regarded with suspicion. Ignorance is not an excuse. Plagiarists include academics, professionals, students, journalists, authors, and others.If you plagiarize you should be aware of the consequences.

For students plagiarism allegations can cause a particular student to be suspended, worse, to be expelled. Their academic record can reflect the ethics offense, possibly causing the student to be barred from entering college from high school or another college. Schools, colleges, and universities take plagiarism very seriously. Most educational institutions have academic integrity committees who police students. Many schools suspend students for their first violation. Students are usually expelled for further offences.

For professionals this can destroy professional reputation. Depending on the offense and the plagiarist's public stature, his o her name may become ruined. Making any kind of meaningful career impossible. Some of this professionals commit serious offense they got caught and some was admitted in jail because of the content that they had plagiarize.

Plagiarism may not only harm the original author by his/her stolen idea, they can also suffer from misinterpretation, some of them gets a hard time in also getting their names cleared, "who is who?", that kind of situation made them angry and sometimes they attempt suicide just to clear everything. In this generation plagiarism became a part of a natural lives but the authorities now have the detection software in which they can detect plagiarized article or a work.

Others idea may be tempting to be plagiarize, instead of plagiarizing someones work use it as an inspiration or a guide to your work. Plagiarism is not the key for your work to be famous or to be heard, in someways you can, just believe in yourself and be yourself.

References:
http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism
http://libguides.falmouthacademy.org/content.php?pid=650215&sid=5385834
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1230679