Student No.: 4800187
Student Name: Huang Xiaojing
Date:3 May 2015
SISAT
School of Information Systems & Technology
Assignment 1
IACT 201 Professional Practice and ethics
2015 Full Time/Part Time (SIM Singapore)
Comparison of Plagiarism
3 Academic Journals on computing
Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. — From Wikipedia [1]
Plagiarism is the action or practice to steal someone else’s work, idea, etc, and passing it off as one’s own. It is a serious act as it infringement others copyright. This is particularly a problem in computer science, where the ideal solution to a problem
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This plagiarized work are sometime been referred or searched first before the original author work, which make the original author credit been "forgotten". The credit will be seen to be given to the plagiarized work where this work only simply contains works of others, and not the work of the plagiarism author. (3)The self assorted plagiarism:
The self absorbed plagiarism refers to author that reuse and republish their own works in different articles with different titles. By doing so, it increase the author number of publication of their "new" works online. The authors may just reuse part of their previous work, rephrase it, and reformat the layout, before publishing it as a new article with new title.
(4)The accidental plagiarism:
The accidental plagiarism refers to sometime, maybe the sources are cited, but the detail inside the source doesn’t indicate properly. Sometimes the references quotation themselves maybe not be original.
There are 3 academic journals to be comparison:[4]
• IEEE Computer
• ACM (the Association for Computing
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Especially for IEEE’s systematic and complete procedures, most of plagiarism or suspicious cases are prevented in the first place from making a big loss in terms of economic and reputation, which eventually results in IEEE getting more and more recognition from researchers worldwide, and always keeping a high standard while they are growing very big with a lot of sub-institutes. Plagiarism prevention has played an important role in its
Plagiarism can be defined as submitting another person’s ideas, words, images, or data without giving that person credit or proper acknowledgement. Plagiarism, a form of academic dishonesty, is equivalent to stealing and will not be tolerated. Because of the increased prevalence and the ease of copying other people’s work, the teachers and administration of Westisle Composite High School feel the need to inform students how to maintain their integrity and academic standards. In order to clarify what constitutes plagiarism, you should be aware that you have committed plagiarism when you: Use phrases, quotes, or ideas not your own; Paraphrase the word of another, even though you may have changed the wording or sentence structure Submit a paper
1. Search Massbay’s website to find school’s plagiarism policy. What does it say? Summarize and cite where the policy is located? Plagiarism is an action of stealing someone’s ideas, thoughts and work and then submit it as our own work.
Plagiarism (noun): 1. Stealing somebody’s work or idea. The outcome of plagiarism has been applied throughout ones entire life in school, and even in the workplace, but what line should be drawn to distinguish when it is okay to use any scientific research and advancements that are already invented and established? Watson explains that after a period of time has passed, any scientific ideas are up for grabs of anyone. Scientific ideas and research should be able to be used and advanced by any individual after a time has passed, as long as the individual is putting their own thoughts and ideas into a previous idea rather than copying it with no individual input.
In any school you have attended, plagiarism is a situation that a writer should not put themselves in under any circumstances. When reading the essay “Something Borrowed,” Malcolm Gladwell gave insight into the flaws of plagiarism that writers may not have thought about before. The first being that plagiarism is never acceptable (927). The second issue with plagiarism is recognizing the differences that can or cannot “inhibit creativity” (931). Being inspired by another person's work can help and guide you to build your own ideas, but simply taking their work and claiming it as yours is not permitted.
Topic 1 George Brown college and Centennial college are strict about plagiarism, and both colleges punish plagiarism students, who have plagiarized. However, there are similar or different punishments depending on the number of times. For example, in George Brown college, if one plagiarizes another person’s writing for the first time, one will receive zero points for only the first assignment and noted on their transcript. After that, if it happened again, one should receive zero points in the course without warnings, and if one plagiarize more than twice, one should be given suspension or expulsion from the George Brown college.
As I engage this unit’s Read and Attend assignments, I find that my understanding of plagiarism is not as fully developed as I had previously thought. Our Unit 3 Attend assignment shares that “in a general sense plagiarism may be caused by carelessness” and these circumstances frequently precipitate the lack of care required while writing (Bethel University, 2014, p. 11). The academic integrity tutorial provided additional information which I found valuable as well. Common themes within each unit assignment provide strands of continuity, while assisting with a more comprehensive understanding. It is my opinion, the type of plagiarism that is hardest for me to avoid is “plagiaphrasing”, also known as “lazy paraphrasing” (Bethel University, 2014, p. 12).
Plagiarism is defined as the act of representing the work of someone else as your own (AERA, 2011; APA, 2010; APA, 2012; Cozby & Bates, 2012; Creswell, 2014). According to Fisher & Partin (2014), there are two forms of plagiarism, which are deliberate and accidental. Deliberate plagiarism is the intentional attempt to pass off the work of someone else as your own, and accidental plagiarism is unknowingly using the work of someone else without proper citation and referencing (Fisher & Partin, 2014). Commonly, plagiarism is thought of as submitting someone else’s work for an essay or school report and can include submitting the entire artifact as your own, or using a small portion of the work, such as paragraph or sentence without properly citing the original author (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Submitting someone else’s work in place of completing the work themselves is an ethical dilemma most students understand; however, oftentimes, students do not understand that it is equally important to cite the ideas of others even when expressed in their own words.
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This is because plagiarism is a very serious offence in the academic world. Consequences are therefore very harsh. Students always strain to write quality non plagiarized essays so as to achieve high grades. However, writing quality and authentic essay papers is not a very easy exercise. First of all, for one to be able to come up with high quality non plagiarized essays, they have to carry our research on the topic of the essay.
In Rebecca Moore Howard’s discussion, she explains the three types of plagiarism. These three types of plagiarism Howard describes are cheating, non-attribution, and patchwriting. My understanding of Howard’s interpretation of these forms of plagiarism is that cheating is when a student doesn't want to complete the assignment themselves, instead turns in writing completed by someone else and claims it is their own. In addition to my understanding of the cheating form of plagiarism, my understanding of the non-attribution form of plagiarism is when a student incorporates work from a source in their writing, but neglects to cite or properly cite their source of information. Finally, my interpretation of Howard’s description of the patchwriting form of plagiarism is when a student changes some of the
Students are given a certain deadline for work that is to be handed up which will put pressure on and tempt students to find the easiest access to the relevant information needed. Students may feel after submitting their own work that they do not receive the result they deserve and therefore could tempt them to take data and information from other sources in the hope to receive a higher grade in their next assignment. Whenever a student uses sourced material, this could be either published primary or secondary material, but can also be information got from other people, it must be indicated. It entails a solid set of values and failure to comply with these standard ethics may constitute an act of plagiarism. There are several things that count as plagiarism for instant, quoting exactly from another source, any ideas borrowed from another source, all ideas taken from the internet and any ideas paraphrased from another
By definition plagiarism is “the act of taking someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as if it were your own.” There are many different types of plagiarism, such as having someone write a paper for you, copying somers paper or just copying something right from the internet. Plagiarism is wrong in many ways because if you are caught you are only hurting yourself. You hurt yourself by having teachers or professors question who you really are. Plagiarism is cheating.
One of the most crucial traits a scholar can develop is a high level of self-efficacy which is essential to academic success. The ability to achieve and to recognize that success can come from being industrious should be the deterring factor for a student who considers committing the act of plagiarism. What is plagiarism one might ask? Voelker, Love & Pentina (2012) define plagiarism as, “putting forward another’s work as your own” (p. 37). This very pervasive problem plagues the education system, and many researchers and psychologist seek to explain the driving force behind students’ academic dishonesty.
This articles made mention of how angry victim may confront the participant who stole their ideas. They also made mention of the fact that most ideas were used with or without their knowledge intentionally and unintentionally in some situations but they never pointed out that plagiarism as students destroys their professional refutation if they want to become big business men and women in the future. Legal repercussions and suspension form schools are also some effects and consequences students who plagiarise go through. Despite these deficiencies, the authors were still able to lay down the necessary argument about plagiarism not to only students but to the public as well. Shonda and stephens provided strong credible points to show the level of anger caused to the owner and the intent to harm their participants as well as conform them since their took their substances with or without their
There is always that one person who is constantly copying off of someone’s homework or asking for their homework for the reason that they are too lazy to complete it themselves. What they are performing is plagiarism and it is not tolerable. Plagiarism is when someone copies or uses another person’s work without giving credit to them. Plagiarizing work is similar to people lifting weights and conditioning, but not eating clean. Countless people plagiarize since they forget to finish their work or they wait until the last minute.