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“What a good thing Adam had. When he said good thing, he knew nobody said it before”
- Mark Twain
A task accomplished by anyone with honesty always give that individual a sense of happiness
and peace. When someone achieve his goal by any act of treachery or falsehood, he or she may
become beloved to many but he or she starts to lose his or her inner peace from that moment.
This treachery, falsehood and showing of someone else work, as your own work is plagiarism.
The term plagiarism is come from Latin word plagiarius “kidnapper”. In 18th century,
Europeans started to consider it as unethical. Scholars in Europe that time started to realize the
importance copyright. However, plagiarism is not specifically criminal act like violations of
copyright acts. It may be consider as violation of moral right or consider as moral offence.
copyright infringement is use of work protected by copy right laws”. In this one use someone
else work without the permission of copyright holder , whereas plagiarism is when you don’t
say where you took it from and show it as your own work. It can be moral offence when
plagiarist is rewarded from the work that he or she showed as his or her work. When an
organization owns the work of particular individual and his or her work is shown by someone
else as his or her own work in that case plagiarism is a criminal act.
Ethics of plagiarism is same as ethics of stealing. It can only be justified as moral in some
situations, for example when someone is dying due to lack of money then stealing to save a life
is moral. But in most of the cases stealing is habitual due to laziness and done to fulfill fancy
desires, which is egregiously bad. In this way most of plagiarism is unethical and some time
illegal. It’s no good to the plagiarist , it will diminishes his or her thinking and creative skills ,also
The other kinds of plagiarism is self plagiarism which is one of the most dangerous
serious ethical issue. Self plagiarism is reuse of one ‘s previous work without citing original work.
The term “recycling fraud” is used for the following kind plagiarist. This leads to many copyright
law related issues, if someone has already given his work’s copyright to other holder and he is
still using that content is also leads to illegal consequences. Some academics journals created
some codes of ethics for self plagiarism for example journal of international business studies.
There are some professional organizations are also involved in this for example association of
computing machinery. Some organization don’t make specific reference regarding self
plagiarism example. APSA (American political science association). People take self plagiarism
lightly due to this it’s much more dangerous, because of people ignorance on the seriousness of
it . it is highly debatable issue which is not given much priority and importance needed.
Plagiarism is unethical and immoral ,only few forms of plagiarisms are beneficial. One must
understand what is consist of plagiarism. One must learn the art of proper citation. One must
and content holder. It can help one to understand what are the pros and cons of it . For this one
Word to word copy of one’s work or copy from single source without alteration. In this one
copy all the words of original source and present it as his or her own work.it is also
called complete plagiarism. These practice are perform by academically poor students and
illiterates .
Remixing of words from other phrases. This form of plagiarism needs a wide range of source
Changing some words and presenting it. It is consist of slightly change in the words of
original source, it can be happen by mistake. Its putting some idea in your words.
Copied from several different sources. It is consist of copying from different sources which
plagiarism. It is consist of proper citation and proper quotation . it occurs when someone
With proper citation but relies purely on structure of original. Similar to remixing of words
academics , journalism and arts. All these three forms are vulnerable to plagiarism and tough to
trace if someone’s work has been stolen. There is rise in extreme form of plagiarism in
academics, which is consist of content mills. These practices are leading to the lack of original
Plagiarism in journalism in this digital world can be lethal weapon. Now days fake
news is very common thing and plagiarism is acting as catalyst in spreading of fake
news. There are many examples of these incident . The temptation of plagiarism is rising
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