sábado, 5 de mayo de 2007

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when you use something, for example an idea or a paragraph, that doesn't belong to you. Nowadays, this is a topic that concerns to everyone, because we can see how this terrible problem has been affecting us. Internet as a useful source of plenty of information about different topics, from it is where people, usually students, plagiarize.

Plagiarism is a matter of honesty and responsibility. Students should develop their tasks by themselves. Although, in most of the times, it is caused because professors do not prevent their students from plagiarism or they do not know how to do a quotation in order to give credit to the one who deserves it. Many people are not aware about this.

Particularly, I think that in our university there should be workshops about plagiarism, not only about what it is, but about the academic things that could happen to that student that plagiarize. Actually, I still do not have an idea if it exists or not. Therefore, I consider that. It would be good a regulation or a restriction about plagiarism in our country, in our university and if it is informed to everyone.




If you still have doubts about what plagiarism is or when it is considered as one, I suggest you, check these links that will help you to understand it better.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
http://www.plagiarism.org/research_site/e_what_is_plagiarism.html

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