Plagiarism

The dictionary defination for Plagiarism is "The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. "
In my opinion, Plagiarism means taking one person's things or ideas without their consent or permission.

In our daily life, plagiarism occurs all the time unknowingly, be it on purpose or not. Even if we found out that some people are copying or using another person's work without crediting it, we would not bother to remind the person or we will find that it is perfectly alright and it is not against plagiarism.

For example, when doing project. We get our information from the wikipedia and copy them and put it as our own work. However, how many of us will admit that we are using the ideas of other people instead of ours?

Another example that i have found myself, http://www.blogskins.com/, is a website that people create their own blogskin and post there for other people to use. I found out that most of the blogskin that people created used photos from the internet and edit them through photoshop and make the photo theirs. Most of them did not credit the photographer and instead, they credit themselves for the photos that they took from the internet.

How would the author feels about this when they saw their own work being copied and was credited to another person? If plagiarism continues, the author will not have motivation to create more ideas because they will not be credited or appreciated.

In conclusion, using ideas from other people is not wrong, however, we do have to respect the author by crediting them.



Written by:
Lo Pei Chuan
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