Plagiarism
[pley-juh-riz-uhm]
Having trouble to create own words, phrases, sentences or
paragraphs?
What if your professor assign you a task and copy the
whole information from the internet as you didn’t try to understand and analyze
the answers? Well, you have a major problem in creating your own ideas.
Stealing someone’s works considered to be called,
“Plagiarism” and what is that?
According to Merriam-webster online dictionary, to
“Plagiarize” means into four ways:
1.
To steal and pass off
the ideas and words of another as one’s own.
2.
To use another’s
production without crediting the source.
3.
To commit literary
theft.
4.
To present as new and
original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Each year our technology was improving and getting
fashionable. Iphone, Ipad, Ipod and other technologies made by Apple Company.
Technology has been a huge influence not just us but, also the kids who always
holding gadgets and doesn’t have time to eat with their families during dinner
or decided to play with their friends outside their houses.
Well, when I was young, I always wanted to go out of our
house and play different games outside like: Hide and seek, Hopscotch, Ice-ice
water, Langit and Lupa, Tumbang Preso,
Luksong Tinik and so on. These are the best childhood games I’ve ever
encountered in my whole life. I’ve never dreamed lots of gadgets and play all
night.
But, how we can lessen these?
As students, technology made us lazy because, it’s really
easy for us to grab all the information without understanding it why and that’s
how “plagiarism” works. Based on what I’ve researched, I saw a lot of comments
of students that technology makes their life easy free! But, how about the
others who doesn’t have internet and laptops?
The answer is, they don’t have communication at all.
Actually, there are other solutions to get information like for example,
dictionary, thesaurus and encyclopedia or probably, past book lessons.
Here are the types of Plagiarism (all without
acknowledging the author):
1.
Copy
and Paste
Actually, the first
type of plagiarism is kind of related in Biology. If you could remember the
relationships of species? One of the example is, Commensalism. When the student
grabs the information, the author doesn’t know that someone steals it OR
probably, inside the classroom, when someone has a homework, his/her classmates
will copy as the person who will not benefit from them
2.
Paraphrasing
When the teacher
assign his students, the students directly went to the computer shop and type
the question through the google and waits for the answers. Once, the student
have already found the exact answers, he’ll copy and paraphrase the paragraph.
STILL, it’s a form of plagiarism!
3.
Reasoning style
copying
Let’s brought our high
school memories slash THE bad days. That moment when your teacher asked you and
you didn’t know the answer, well you should probably look around and wait until
your friend help you in sign language. Funny, right? Cheers to the person who
always copy the answer!
4.
Copying analogies or
metaphors
“The person who
always sleeps, his grades will also sleep and the teacher will magic your
grade.” BOOM! Actually, I’ve experienced that “our” valedictorian copied my
assignments because, he was absent yesterday and he doesn’t know the answers.
One word: LAZY
5.
Copying creative
ideas or solutions
During math lessons,
when the teacher ask his students, the students will answer him that everyone
gets his lessons. Then, suddenly there’s a surprise quiz as the students
screaming at the top of their lungs, asking for ¼ intermediate pad paper and
look for a friend who is smart in Math. Here is the trick, ask him that you
didn’t know how to solve it, then pretend that you understand then, tell that
you’ll understand on what he’s saying but, actually you’re copying the whole
answers because, you’re too lazy to analyze and solve. One word: BUFFERRING (at
the moment)
6.
Buying papers
Asking your friend
that you’re asking for a paper but, actually you’re asking for the WHOLE
answers. Trust me, we’ve experienced ALL DAY!
7.
Presenting other
people’s works
Admit it, some teachers will
download some other works of authors from the internet, (sad but true) but, I’m
not saying that teachers are also LAZY (but, actually there are also lazy too).
The important here is, they tackle the lessons as the students understand the
lesson in easy way. (If you know what I mean).
Tips from the blogger:
Remember, if you’re lazy doing paper works, don’t at
least try to copy ALL the information and paraphrase it. Why? Because, authors
really worked hard for sharing the information. It’s actually a good tip for
those people who doesn’t have ideas, yet.
Also, if you’re unsure with your answers, you can make
bullets in a whole sheet of paper and try to check the source as it gives you
some information.
-Krystelle
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