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¶ … Foster, R.L. "Avoiding unintentional plagiarism." Journal Specialists Pediatric Nursing, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2007): 1 -- 2.
Plagiarism is an issue throughout modern academia as well as in all realms of professional writing. Generally, plagiarism refers to any use of the writing or intellectual product of another person without acknowledging and crediting the original source of the information. Deliberate plagiarism consists of the purposeful use of work authored by another in an attempt to pass off writing that includes that work as being entirely the original work of the person using that information. Common examples of deliberate plagiarism include copying and pasting information from online sources and hand-copying written material from books and other hardcopy sources. However, plagiarism can also occur entirely unintentionally, and usually is the result of a genuine lack of understanding as to what types of use of research material requires referencing. Therefore, it is crucial for students, writers, and professional to understand the applicable rules that distinguish appropriate and inappropriate use of existing work in connection with properly citing and crediting that source material.
Discussion
Deliberate Plagiarism
In principle, the two most fundamental reasons that crediting the work of others when using...
Deliberately using the prior work of others and trying to disguise it so as to present it as new original work is the most blatant form of plagiarism (Foster, 2007). Since the Internet age, the incidence of academic dishonesty of this type has increased dramatically, mainly because the word processing functions (i.e. cut and paste) make wholesale copying of original work so much easier than ever before. The Internet medium also contributes to plagiarism because it allows extensive searches of virtually all intellectual databases in existence rather than limiting the possible sources of material to a single institutional or public library (Foster, 2007). Other typical forms of deliberate plagiarism are trading of pre-written term papers among students and even "self-plagiarism" such as where a student recycles work written for one class and submits it for academic cred-it in a subsequent class.
Unintentional Plagiarism
Plagiarism can also occur entirely unintentionally by virtue of genuine ignorance about what plagiarism is and what types of uses of outside sources requires formal acknowledgement and crediting the original source (Foster, 2007). While it is obvious that actually using the words of another author requires a citation, many students and others simply…
In principle, plagiarizing by paraphrasing can occur both deliberately, such as where the writer is fully aware that reproducing the ideas of another in different words without credit is plagiarism, as well as entirely unintentionally, such as where the writer genuinely believes that rewriting the material in all-original words is sufficient to make it original writing (Foster, 2007). As a general rule, the only types of information that do not require a reference are factual statements that are commonly known and purely historical facts that are widely available in reference works. Conversely, any opinion or analysis presented in original work must be credited to the author irrespective of what words are used to convey those ideas (Foster, 2007). One of the simplest ways that tutors, editors, and proofreaders can help writers avoid plagiarism is by asking them whether they are the original source of specific ideas and reminding them that any idea that comes from another person must always be credited to that person.
Conclusion
This article was tremendously helpful to me. I realized that I have, in the past, probably been guilty of unintentional plagiarism because I may have reproduced the intellectual ideas of others without crediting them appropriately because I was genuinely unaware that completely rewriting them so that all of the words were entirely original was not enough to make those ideas mine. This article taught me how important it is to continually ask myself whether every specific idea expressed in my writing is original or whether it represents someone else's ideas but in my original words. I believe that my understanding of the definition of plagiarism is now sufficient for me to avoid ever committing it unintentionally.
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