The Different forms of Plagiarism

The vast advancement in technology in information in term of accessioning and

retrieval makes easier way and information is actually are at the fingertips. Students can
just google everything and will of course get many information. In line with the
development of information technology people are more likely to just use or in other
word will fully utilize all the information by their own without acknowledging where they
find them. Plagiarism is the act of taking credit for someone else's words or ideas. It's
an act of intellectual dishonesty, and it comes with serious consequences
(Valdez,2018). The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the act of plagiarism as; “to
steal and pass off ideas or words of another as one’s own”. Simply put, plagiarism is the
process of taking other people’s words and/or ideas and pretending that they are your
own. An alternative definition of plagiarism is forwarded by the Collins Dictionary which
explains that plagiarism is the practice of using someone else’s work and pretending
that it is your own. Plagiarism can also be defined as the act of deliberately trying to
deceive your academic tutor by submitting content which is not your own work.
Plagiarism have different forms such as paraphrasing plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism ,
and verbatim plagiarism.

Paraphrasing plagiarism is committed when a writer summarizes an idea taken from

another source and fails both to cite the author(s) and to provide the corresponding
reference (Ortiz,2008). The summary contains a sequence of 7 or more words taken
from that source which is not properly acknowledged, then word-for-word plagiarism is
also committed. Paraphrasing itself is not automatically plagiarism; in fact, it’s often a
recognized (and even recommended) way to avoid plagiarism. The issue is whether
you’ve properly acknowledged and credited the source of the words and ideas you’ve
used. If you paraphrase sloppily (or worse, fail to cite the source altogether), then yes,
it’s certainly plagiarism. A poorly done paraphrase can still come across as plagiarism if
it reads as if they were your words but in reality they were somebody else’s words or
ideas (this happens when you’ve just done a minimal rewrite and only changed a few
key words and only nominally credited the source). If the wording you end up with
sounds like it came from you but it wasn’t, you’re still passing their ideas off as your
own.

Mosaic plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without
using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for the author's language while keeping to the
same general language structure and meaning as found in the original (Jacob and
Anderson, 2010, p11). Sometimes we called this "path writing," this kind of plagiarism,
Awhether intentional or not, is academically dishonest and punishable. Even if you
footnote your source. Patchwork plagiarism (also known as mosaic plagiarism or
1incremental plagiarism) is similar to paraphrasing. It is when you copy and paste
together pieces of different texts to create a new text. This includes rewording pieces of
sourced material while keeping the structure of the original texts.This type of plagiarism
requires a little more effort and is more insidious than simply incorrectly paraphrasing a
source, but plagiarism checkers like Turnitin can still easily detect this kind of
plagiarism.

Verbatim Plagiarism is word for word copy from another source without providing
attribution (Knussen,2013) . You commit verbatim plagiarism when you directly copy
text from a source and paste it in your own document without properly citing the
information. If the majority of the structure and words are the same, then it is verbatim
plagiarism, even if you delete or change a couple words here and there. If you want to
use the exact same words from a source, you need to quote the original source by
putting the copied text in quotation marks and including an in-text citation.

Plagiarism has different forms as we stated in the above on this paper and avoiding
plagiarism is important. It is important to properly concede to the contributions and
information made by other people. It shows respect for their work, most importantly, you
are giving credit where credit is due. You are not deceiving the person who reads it to
falsely believe that the work is yours. From the point of view of what we have discussed
about plagiarism here, there is a definite fact that plagiarism have different form . It is an
increasing lure amongst students and an invariable complication for the teachers in
dealing with the issue. The academic community definitely values the acknowledgment
of other people's contributions to knowledge. And therefore, the punishment for
someone who gets caught for plagiarism could be severe. Hence it is very vital for
students to understand what plagiarism means and the consequences of plagiarizing.

References:

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Pearson Prentice Hall.

Knussen,C.(2013). Why not take this as an opportunity to practice a little

originality.London: Bloomsburg Children's.