Plagiarism is Unethical: So Be Original and Don’t Plagiarize
Abstract
Plagiarism is unlawful use of another' intellectual property. "MLA Handbook for Research Paper Writers" defines plagiarism as a "False presumption of Authorship." Using another's ideas, information, or expressions without crediting them or passing them off as your own. Even though technology has made plagiarism easier, it has also provided ways to detect it. Plagiarism and other immoral tactics are incompatible with the objective of knowledge production, which is to improve human life. Plagiarism is considered unethical by most academics. The scientific community has been concerned about plagiarism in recent decades. Plagiarism is common, but it's not scientific. Some media outlets report on scientific plagiarism, including data manipulation by famous scientists. Differing fields, countries, educational levels, and times report different rates of plagiarism. Unethical is plagiarism. Plagiarism can be theft, involve deception that uses professors as a tool, violate the trust that underpins the professor-student relationship, be unfair to other students in multiple ways, degrade the student's education, indulge vices like indolence and cowardice, deny access to the discipline's internal goods, devalue a university degree, undermine creative self-expression, and undermine acceptance of epistemic limitations. Plagiarism calls for severe penalties to counteract a student's competitive orientation to achievement. This study explores plagiarism, its history, the types of plagiarism students commit, legislations, plagiarism breaches in India and how plagiarism detecting tools might help.
Plagiarism is unlawful use of another' intellectual property. "MLA Handbook for Research Paper Writers" defines plagiarism as a "False presumption of Authorship." Using another's ideas, information, or expressions without crediting them or passing them off as your own. Even though technology has made plagiarism easier, it has also provided ways to detect it. Plagiarism and other immoral tactics are incompatible with the objective of knowledge production, which is to improve human life. Plagiarism is considered unethical by most academics. The scientific community has been concerned about plagiarism in recent decades. Plagiarism is common, but it's not scientific. Some media outlets report on scientific plagiarism, including data manipulation by famous scientists. Differing fields, countries, educational levels, and times report different rates of plagiarism. Unethical is plagiarism. Plagiarism can be theft, involve deception that uses professors as a tool, violate the trust that underpins the professor-student relationship, be unfair to other students in multiple ways, degrade the student's education, indulge vices like indolence and cowardice, deny access to the discipline's internal goods, devalue a university degree, undermine creative self-expression, and undermine acceptance of epistemic limitations. Plagiarism calls for severe penalties to counteract a student's competitive orientation to achievement. This study explores plagiarism, its history, the types of plagiarism students commit, legislations, plagiarism breaches in India and how plagiarism detecting tools might help.
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