What is plagiarism,,

What Is Plagiarism

Plagiarism means stealing other words, ideas, and showing it as own. However according to Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary:

• To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own

·         To use (another's production) without crediting the source

• To commit literary theft
• To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterwards.

 How to avoid plagiarism?

Specific words and phrases; if a writer use an author specific words or word in their writing, place those word in the quotation marks and you must credit the source.

Information; provide those information, for which you provide a secure source, that the reader can easily access those information.

Ideas; if a source is used credit will be given to writer, to avoid plagiarism. So always credit these ideas from where you get your original ideas in writing.

Common knowledge; you do not need to cite a source for material considered common knowledge.

General common knowledge; is factual information, such as birth and death dates of well-known figures, and generally accepted dates of military, political, literary, and other historical events. In general, factual information contained in multiple standard reference works can usually. So you do not need reference for such types of information.

Types of Plagiarism

There are also some another kinds of plagiarism, which we discuss in detail,

1.    The ghost writer, the turn for another person works, and copies his words, his word to word. And show it as own idea.

2.    The photocopy, in this kind of plagiarism, the writer copying significant amount of their writing straight from a single source without alteration.

3.    The pot-luck paper, the writer copying from different sources make the sentences together, and it look fit together, while then retaining original phrasing.

4.    The labour of laziness, the writer takes most of the time collect data from different sources, instead of spending time on their own, to make their original contribution.

5.    The poor disguise, the writer keep the essential content of the source, they altered the paper appearance slightly, change only key words and phrases

6.    The self stealer, the writer borrow data from their previous work and they violating the policies regarding work and they violating the policies regarding the plagiarism adopted by most institution.

 Sources cited,

The author sometimes give the references but still plagiarizes due to some missing information or not nor correctly the reference.

The forgotten notes,

The writer fail to provide specific location of the material that include in the paper, also maintain the author name.

The misinformed,

The sources given by the person are different to find them, they sometime give incorrect references.