Thursday, August 22

Journal - What do you know about plagiarism? What do you know about plagiarism on the internet? How do web design, the internet and plagiarism all effect each other? Explain.

Plagiarism is taking someone else's work, copying it, and using it as if it was your own words. You could say there is different forms of plagiarism. One would be copying and pasting it exactly as another person writing it and only changing the name to your own. Another would be taking most of it, changing a few words, and saying it is original when clearly it's not; changing the word talked to discussed does not count as making it your own work. You stole some else's idea and attempted to make it your own without any thought into it. Plagiarism is not looking at your friends idea and writing something completely different but about the same idea. That is just called helping out a friend. Just because they thought of the idea does not make it copying if you just use the idea, not the words. That just means it's a great idea.
Plagiarism on the internet is a lot more common and easier than other types of plagiarism. Copying someone else's paper on the internet requires you to copy and paste. That's it. Really simple. A person can copy anything on the internet with a few clicks of the mouse and that's why it is a lot more common and why it's the most known form of plagiarism. Though it is done quit frequently, there have been ways made to tell if your work is plagiarized or not. Teachers use Turnitin.com to see if their students copied and pasted there essays.
Web design., the internet, and plagiarism have a lot in common. We get on the internet everyday and write essays, journals, etc so plagiarism might me more common in a class that we use the computer everyday in rather than in a government or art class. Plagiarism is the easy way out for most students but that does not mean they should do it. If you plagiarize, you have a big chance of being caught with the technology we have today. Don't cheat. Do it yourself. If you're stuck, as a friend or parent, don't steal someone else's hard work that they put a lot of effort into and call it your own.