Plagiarism-Accepting Society

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Plagiarism-Accepting Society and its Aftermaths As we can see nowadays, the frequency of plagiarizing work such as worksheets, notes or even reports for our grades is very common in Thai schools. However, plagiarizing someone’s work is a reckless act in accomplishing work because as a grown up, it could ruin one’s career or completely annihilate one’s credibility. But these acts are still being frequent in Thailand, especially in government organizations. These habits usually start as a student when homework is not finished on time, which might develop into something more severe than just copying alone.
Lots of students in Thailand copy their classmate’s work at least once for various reasons such as spending too much time doing something else. Mostly just slacking off for too long, failing to prioritize as the number of assignments confuse the …show more content…

The workplace would consider more quality over quantity and the habit of plagiarism can be a big trouble in their own career. It shows that the one who did it did not put any efforts in their work at all, copying would be considered as not respecting their own job and may also proceed into some other problems for the organization such as the company getting sued for copyright issues and such. As seen in the article by Erika Fry, Supachai, director of the National Innovation Agency, knew he could be fired from his position for plagiarizing. He decided to sue the one who he plagiarized from to cover the trace of his doings. As a result, the original author countersued Supachai for defamation. Also, he knows he would be in a lot of trouble if this spread, so he decided to get the journalist, Erika Fry, out of the way by alleging her for defamation to prevent her from making any further investigation and accusation. But these things in Thailand nowadays are just common stuff for most people from a regular employee in a private company to the head of the

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