Week 4:"NO PLAGIARISM"

First, I want to define the word "PLAGIARISM", for me it is copying or stealing someone's work. It means taking another person's work without asking and calling it your own. Plagiarism can be accidental or intentional.  Maybe many of the students do this. They just copy and paste the works of other. I think they just do it because they are lazy in doing their own work. For me, it is ok to copy someone's work but make sure that you will ask permission to the owner.

Being original all the time can be tough, but copying another person's work and passing it as our own is a punishable offense. It is an illegal and immoral doing. Doing plagiarism is not good because it is one of the biggest mistake that you will do.

We must no to PLAGIARIZE because it is very unfair to the true owner. Also you will not learn anything because you just copy and paste it without understanding.Many offenses you will encounter if you plagiarize.

Some of the examples of plagiarism:
-copying and pasting from the Internet and posting somewhere else without proper citation.
-putting your name on another person's essay or project
-copying exact wording from another person's text
-using another person's photo,diagram,sounds,or ideas without proper citation
-presenting research in your own words without providing your references

I know that all of us have their own ideas,thoughts and opinions so use it in doing your works. All of us have a knowledge to have originality. So we must have self-confidence in doing our own work because God created us unique and give us good characteristics and enough knowledge.

http://www.englishclub.com/writing/plagiarism.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism