Plagiarism

Plagiarism

Introduction

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is an act in which the writer or the researcher uses the researched information of other author without any proper citation and quotation marks. It is an illegal act according to the copyright act. Proper citation helps in removing the level of plagiarism and in addressing someone else's work in a meaningful way. Changing few words does not remove plagiarism; it requires complete different approach that is known as paraphrasing. If someone uses someone else's work, thoughts without giving credit to the original author this act comes under plagiarism (Clarke & Roger, 2006).

Purpose Statement

“The purpose of this paper is to identify and evaluate plagiarism and its consequences that a person can face.”

b. Extent of Plagiarism

In my point of view the student has not plagiarized the work of the author but he or she has not done the right paraphrasing of the passage. There are many points that are not clear in the work of student that needs to be updated. The student has changed the point of view of the author and has presented the distorted point of view of the author. This is an illegal act that needs to be given high importance. Presenting wrong information with author's citation is a crime that this student has done.

c. Two Sentences Plagiarized

The student has paraphrased the author's passage in an un-effective manner and at many places the purpose of the study becomes more unclear and it has made the reader confused. There are some chunks of words that are used in the same manner as the author has used in his work like “ending a study”, “skimming over or” and “in the best light”. The formatting of the passage is not proper APA because the in text citation is not done according to the APA standards i.e. (Author ...