Sikes is talking about the many companies that will write essays for students for a price. There has been a "shift in moral and other values resulting in different perceptions of what is acceptable" (Sikes, 2009, p
200) Shelly Yeo conducted a survey of first year science and engineering students, exploring the views of these students vis-a-vis what they perceive as plagiarism. Published in the journal Higher Education Research & Development, Yeo's article clearly points to the fact that plagiarism is "…not a universally understood or accepted concept in academia" (Yeo, 2007, p
Plagiarism Plagiarism is a word that is "applied to vastly different situations, for crimes as well as misdemeanors and even for deed of unclear wrongness 'from sloppy documentation and proof-reading to outright, premeditated fraud." (Bouville, 2008) When plagiarism is explicitly defined at all, it is "generally taken to mean the appropriation of the words and ideas of others
There was a general agreement between academics that students should acknowledge parts of the source-code that were not originally authored by them, although some academics have expressed uncertainties whether reuse without acknowledgement constitutes plagiarism." (Cosma and Joy, 2006) Summary and Conclusion Plagiarism can be taken to mean the use of someone's words or ideas without acknowledging the author
Traditionally, I believed that plagiarism resulted in a conscious desire on the part of an individual to not write his or her own material, and to simply copy the works of another. Evidence of plagiarism is "growing" (Bartzis & Hayner, 2009)
Evidence of plagiarism is "growing" (Bartzis & Hayner, 2009). However, this quiz has revealed to me that even when one is attempting to write one's own material, lack of proper citation etiquette can result in a scenario in which one inadvertently, "unintentionally" (Di Maria, 2009) is plagiarizing
Paraphrasing helps students realize that comprehension is the goal of reading." (Sharon, 2009 p 73)
Two sentences from the passage you think are clear examples of plagiarism and an example of how to rephrase them in your own words 1) But it is hard to know if a conflict of interest between doctors, researchers, and the drug company stockholders has tainted the results. This sentence could be rephrased as: It is, however, not an easy task to determine whether a "conflict of interest" has occurred between doctors and pharmaceutical researchers, corrupting the results (Crossen, 1994, p
, facts discovered by another author, graphs, statistics, drawings, etc. Quotations of somebody else's written/spoken statements Paraphrase of somebody else's written/spoken statements (Saunders & Meek)