The Whats And Whys Of Plagiarism

July 28, 2017

Author : Rose

Plagiarism refers to when an individual picks on someone else’s ideas or research and presents it as their own.

So, the big question is,

What is the motivation behind Plagiarism?

The strongest driver of plagiarism is that, ready content is available online. So, it is easy to copy paste content for most students.

The external and internal pressure to attain good grades;

The fear of failing;

Personal goal orientation;

A common myth,

Incorporation of other people’s ideas will add quality to their work.

Plagiarism.COM

Plagiarism.com is a web based service, which is used in universities, which acts as a barrier and checks for originality of content.

10 TYPES OF PLAGIARISM ORDERED FROM MOST TO LEAST SEVERE

(Source: plagiarism.com)

CLONE: Refers to submitting another’s work, word-to-word, as one’s own.

CTRL-C: A piece of writing that contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations.

FIND–REPLACE: Means, changing key words and phrases, but retaining the gist of the source in the content.

REMIX: Refers to paraphrasing from various sources and fitting the content seamlessly.

RECYCLE: Involves borrowing from one’s own previous work without citation; (Also known asself-plagiarize.)

HYBRID: Means combining cited sources with copied passages—without citation—in one paper.

MASHUP: Represents a mix of copied material from several different sources without proper citation.

404 ERROR: A written piece that includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources.

AGGREGATOR: “Aggregator” includes proper citation, but the paper contains almost no original work.

RE-TWEET: This paper includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text’s original wording and/or structure.

ADVANTAGES OF TURNITIN

It makes detecting plagiarism easy,

It has an ever-expanding database,

It increases student engagement,

It provides other services like Peer Check, Grade Check, and WriteCheck which help give more meaningful feedback to students.

INTERPRETING TURNITIN COLOR CODES

There are different colors which show different levels of plagiarism on a Plagiarism originality report;

Blue: 0% (a valid result)

Green: 1-24%

Yellow: 25-49%

Orange: 50-74%

Red: 75-100%

For example: If you get ayellow35% similarity percentage that means that 35% of your paper is exactly the same as other sources found by Plagiarism.

SOME EXAMPLES OF PLAGIARISM

You take ideas about a historical event from a history professor’s blog and do not provide credit for those ideas in your history paper;

You find a journal article with data provided by scientists about UAV drones and use it as your own data in a PH.D. thesis;

You copy Nelson Mandela’ssayings about education word-to-word in your English paper without any quotation marks;

You do not provide a citation and reference for all the information that you have paraphrased;

TURNITIN DETECTOR

The highlight in red indicates 75-100% of the content is picked from external sources.

MISCONCEPTIONS – TURNITIN

There are many misconceptions regarding ‘Plagiarism’. We bust 2 of them below:

Plagiarism detects plagiarism.Reality: Plagiarism matches texts in our databases to check for originality.

Plagiarism compares a paper against everything ever written . . . web pages, books, publications, unpublished works, etc. . . .Reality:There are sources that are not in Plagiarism database—but, the sources that students typically use are largely included in Plagiarism.

CONCLUSION

Integrity and working more efficiently shouldbe the agenda of all students.

Plagiarism provide feedback to students on their use of source material with the world’s largest content comparison database.

So, go on, make Plagiarism a part of your writing culture.

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Rose

Rose believes that students should be given ample time to focus on their core studies. So, she decided to utilize her nursing knowledge gained in her postgraduation to help them complete their assignments. Rose provides assignment help to students by being a part of My Assignment Services as a Nursing assignment writing expert. She also takes up students' queries related to nursing and provides them with one-to-one sessions. Adding to her experience is the five years of freelancing writing that she did along with Masters.