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Clicky poll re: plagiarism
Cue debate on what constitutes plagiarism.
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Re: Clicky poll re: plagiarism
Blatantly or on purpose? No. And I always cited the hell out of every research paper I ever wrote. But I'm sure there were times when I maybe didn't reword something sufficiently or whatever that someone on here would consider plagiarism, I guess?
In 6th grade one of my friends won the school's Valentine's Day poetry contest.
She totally ripped it off.
I was too wussy to say anything at the time but I heard the poem again a couple years ago and it confirmed what I knew all along.
*Live, Love, Laugh, Learn*
Travel Adventures.
Above Us Only Sky
That's all I care about with regards to this poll.
lol I figured thats what you were asking about - I said no.
If you paraphrase, it needs to be cited. The three instances where citation is needed:
- direct quotes (duh)
- paraphrasing
- information unique to the source
BUT yeah, there's a fine line between paraphrasing and just using the information (which might be from a few sources) in your own words, so I get what you mean. I DO think that sort of thing vs. intentional plagarism is obvious, though.
40/112
I understand that which is why I clarified that I extensively cited every paper I've ever written.....
No, but I was accused of it by one of my thesis advisers, because my writing was 'too well done'.
Women are supposed to be dumb y'all.
never even considered it in college.
the closest I have come is 'plagiarizing' off myself. I had an essay due in HS and didn't have it done, so I printed off an essay that I had done a couple years before and handed it in. I didn't get a very good grade, because writing expectations increase from 9th to 11th grade, but, at least, I didn't fail.
I felt guilty enough doing that.
No because:
1) It's wrong and I'm very black and white on ethical issues
2) I would have lost my scholarship and been kicked out. Not worth the risk for this non-risk taker.
3) I went to engineering school. We didn't write papers with research. I wrote about: this is what I think will happen, here are my results, this is what I learned from those results. It's impossible to plagiarize on those things.
When I started university in 1988 the internet was nearly an urban myth. Nobody had it in their dorm room to be sure. C&P was nearly unheard of.
Kids still plagarized though, just the old fashioned way.
Not me.
old fashioned way, but the smart way. find some journal in the stacks that no one has heard of and hasn't been moved for 10 years, make sure your professor didn't publish the article, and start writing.
C&P from the internet is the easiest to track down.
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This right here.
I don't think I've plargarized anything since my 6th grade report on Greece and I was expected to copy sections of it straight from the encyclopedia.
ETA: And now that I'm thinking about it, I may have cited my source.If you want to lose your faith in the future, talk to my boss about the papers that come across her desk COMPLETELY plagiarized. Like, the whole page is highlighted as a match on turnitin.com. I swear they think they are the only ones with access to the google.
::facepalm::
Never had to. Writing nerd alert.
You guys would die at what kids try to get away with turning in. Like I'm not going to notice that suddenly you have mastered the art of properly embedding quotes or actually understanding the meaning of a poem.
Yes,I'm smiling...I'm a marathoner!
Bloggy McBloggerson
CO Nestie Award Winner-Prettiest Brain-Back to Back!
2011 Bests
5K-22:49 10K-47:38 Half Mary-1:51:50
2012 Race Report
1/1-New Year's 5K-22:11
2/11-Sweetheart Classic 4-mile-29:49
3/24-Coulee Chase 5K-21:40
5/6-Colorado Marathon-4:08:30
5/28-Bolder Boulder 10K
Or they copy and paste and don't even bother to change the size and font of the plagarized portion. True story!
40/112
Absolutely not. Citing isn't that hard - it was never worth the risk of getting my scholarship yanked as an undergrad, and later getting kicked out of my MA/Ph.D. program. Now, it's not worth destroying my reputation.
On a side note, I am taking my second trip to the academic dishonesty committee this year. Last semester I turned in a student for plagiarism. This semester I am turning in a group - including the same student from last semester - for plagiarism. I have a zero tolerance policy on it in my classes.
And let's not forget to recognize the parents who will fight tooth and nail against giving their kid a zero for plagiarism, even when confronted with concrete evidence.
:::headdesk:::
Yes,I'm smiling...I'm a marathoner!
Bloggy McBloggerson
CO Nestie Award Winner-Prettiest Brain-Back to Back!
2011 Bests
5K-22:49 10K-47:38 Half Mary-1:51:50
2012 Race Report
1/1-New Year's 5K-22:11
2/11-Sweetheart Classic 4-mile-29:49
3/24-Coulee Chase 5K-21:40
5/6-Colorado Marathon-4:08:30
5/28-Bolder Boulder 10K
I'd bet money it had to do less with the fact that you're a woman and more with the fact that most undergrads' writing is abysmal.
I love being lawyer. You are expected to copy some Judge's ideas, and its ok because you cite it.
I once gave a professor a printed out set of code that my boyfriend (now husband) wrote. I even left his name on it in the comments, and crossed it out with green crayon and wrote my own name in like I was four. But that was a joke to tease the prof, not for actual credit, so I don't think that's what you are looking for.
I had a guy give me a bunch of plagiarized crap for a group project once, but luckily I was putting together the final paper, knew where he'd copied it from because I happened to look at the same resource, and threw in a citation and then re-wrote part of it. Bastard.