Plagiarism

=What is plagiarism?=

This from the [|Encyclopedia Brittanica]:

**Main** The act of taking the writings of another person and passing them off as one’s own. The fraudulence is closely related to forgery and piracy—practices generally in violation of [|copyright laws].
 * “Plagiarism **

If only thoughts are duplicated, expressed in different words, there is no [|breach of contract]. Also, there is no breach if it can be proved that the duplicated wordage was arrived at independently. // Related Articles // Aspects of this topic are discussed in the following places at Britannica. ...is forgery—making a work or offering one for sale with the intent to defraud, usually by falsely attributing it to an artist whose works command high prices. Other fraudulent practices include plagiarism, the false presentation of another’s work as one’s own, and piracy, the unauthorized use of someone else’s work, such as the publication of a book without permission of the author; both... In a related effect the Internet has brought plagiarism into the computer era in two distinct senses. First, electronic texts have made it simple for students to “cut and paste” published sources (e.g., encyclopaedia articles) into their own papers. Second, although students could always get someone to write their papers for them, it is now much easier to find and purchase anonymous...** " ** media type="youtube" key="uxO8KEp3v78" height="315" width="420" =How to Avoid Plagiarism=
 * Assorted References **
 * **fraudulence in arts** ( //in// [|forgery (art)] )
 * **use of the Internet** ( //in// [|Internet (computer network): Education] )

A great place to start is [|plagiarism.org]. You can find tools to help you avoid unintentional plagiarism and tools to help you cite your work correctly. You can avoid plagiarizing, or copying work by paraphrasing, putting it into your own words. Use a thesaurus to help you find different words to use. Read your work out loud. Does it sound like you? If you copy and paste from the internet, from any printed material -that is plagiarizing. You may need to quote pieces of someone's work to make your point in a research paper, but you must use quotation marks and you must give credit to your source. Teachers often check a student's work if it seems to have come directly from a book or a web page. Now you can check your work first and be sure that you didn't unintentionally plagiarize. A relatively new source to help you both correct spelling and grammar mistakes and check for unintended plagiarism is paper rater. Other plagiarism checkers include: [|Plagium] and[| Plagiarisma] and[| DocCop], as well as many others. You may well find some schools and universities using [|Turnitin] or other subscription programs to check student work.

[|Example of Famous Plagiarism]
[|"All Things Considered], January 10, 2002 · Guest Host Melissa Block talks with Thomas Mallon, author of //Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism,// about the discovery of plagiarism by well-known authors such as Steven Ambrose, and research techniques which should help avoid the problem. (4:30) //Stolen Words// is published by Harvest Books, April 2001. Mallon is also author of the //Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy,// published this month by Pantheon Books."

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