Plagiarism

Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else's work. This can be a piece of writing, a piece of music, or even using a picture without the proper permission. If we use something by someone else and cite it correctly, giving credit to the rightful owner, then we can use it without getting in trouble. Some schools even provide resources to help students to submit their work to check to make sure that everything is cited correctly, so that the student does not get in trouble in the future.

Something that I still do not completely understand about plagiarism is what pictures we can use or not when it comes to using pictures off the internet?


Update (3/19/2017):
Plagiarism can apply to a lot more than just writing a simple English paper. We have heard examples of it coming from the music business as well.

Something that the article said that I liked the way it was put is "therefore, plagiarism also defeats the university's goal of teaching students to write, not just copy," (Nine). When college students decide to use other people's work without taking credit it shows that they haven't learned much in class.

The article also talks about how some people worry about writing something that they may have read something from a long time ago, but it matches pretty well with something someone else says and then using it in ones paper. This is a common thing that happens when students write papers, but as long as the phrase dose not come off as too long and too close to what the original writer said then there usually is not a problem.

Here is a link to the article: http://integrity.ou.edu/files/nine_things_you_should_know.pdf