Plagiarism

[il_bilge]

Plagiarism

Plagiarism—presenting someone else’s work as your own—rears its ugly head in many forms. Everyone knows that paying someone to write your college application essay is illegal; everyone knows that copying an online article on The Scarlet Letter is unethical. And most people realize that lifting a sentence or two verbatim from a couple of different encyclopedias and stringing them together is extremely fishy.
But plagiarism also includes taking credit for other people’s ideas, not just their words. Say you are poking around online, doing research for a paper on Hemingway and nature. You find an article that makes a great point about rabbits in For Whom the Bell Tolls—great because it’s useful for your argument. The text reads:

“he association of the band of fighters with rabbits underscores their fragile position relative to the Fascists. Like rabbits, Robert Jordan and his band live in close contact with the natural world: they are a small and vulnerable group, in sharp contrast to the Fascists and their threatening industrial war machinery.”

(sparknotes.com)


What do you think about plagiarism? Especially graduate and post-graduate students can well understand what it means to plagiarise a text, an idea, a thought, a theory of someone else.

It is just stealing some other guy's work. That's what it means to me.

And to you?

[antropolog]

plagiarism is a very serious crime I think it's stealing like you said. I'm an anthropology student so I have to prepare research papers for lectures. So I'm in this subject I have to write down the source of what I wrote in the end of every paragraph even if it is my thoughts of a text I've read. When we're writing an academic essay or research we have to state the sources. Only if a sentence starts with "in my opinion" or "I think" we don't have to put source. Also internet is not been used in academic writings. It's taken as plagiarism too.

[il_bilge]

Sayın antropolog şöyle demiş:

plagiarism is a very serious crime I think it's stealing like you said. I'm an anthropology student so I have to prepare research papers for lectures. So I'm in this subject I have to write down the source of what I wrote in the end of every paragraph even if it is my thoughts of a text I've read. When we're writing an academic essay or research we have to state the sources. Only if a sentence starts with "in my opinion" or "I think" we don't have to put source. Also internet is not been used in academic writings. It's taken as plagiarism too.

According to MLA (Modern Language Association) you can use a source from internet only if you point out the address in your "Works Cited Page". You don't have to declare that a sentence is yours by using "I think" or "In my opnion" phrases. If they belong to you in real, just write what you want. If you have to make use of others' sentences, then the obligation of citing them properly comes for us.

It's a serious crime, yes. Especially for people who are attending MA (Master's Degree or Post-Graduate Studies) and PhD (Doctoral Programmes) it's more important because these people are to cope with lots of research in order to complete the writing process of their thesis.

If you're caught making plagiarism in any university in US or UK, you are -in very basic terms- fired and can not carry on an academic career anymore.

in Turkey? Is it so?

[antropolog]

Sayın il_bilge şöyle demiş:

You don't have to declare that a sentence is yours by using "I think" or "In my opnion" phrases. If they belong to you in real, just write what you want. If you have to make use of others' sentences, then the obligation of citing them properly comes for us.

I missed a part sorry, of course like you said it's not necessary in every sentence but in your paragraph you must use this statements to show that they're your own words.

Also we had a lecturer last year, she came from Canada and she gave us the information about plagiarism and the internet issue. She told that in her university a friend of her failed from an academic writing because of she took internet as a source.

Sayın il_bilge şöyle demiş:

in Turkey? Is it so?

Unfortunately not. It just means that your grade will decrease or in a very clear crimes you will get F from that lecture if only you have an idealist lecturer.

[il_bilge]

Sayın Antropolog şöyle demiş:

Also we had a lecturer last year, she came from Canada and she gave us the information about plagiarism and the internet issue. She told that in her university a friend of her failed from an academic writing because of she took internet as a source.

Some of the universities accept such a regulation however, if you find a book, a pamphlet, an essay in internet (in the case where you are not able to reach that source anywhere else), for example from an online library of a university, you can use that. But also it must be a scientific and logically proven data in order to use in your thesis.

If a MA student uses "any" random data from a non-scientific source in internet, then of course they will not accept it as scientific..

Unfortunately not. It just means that your grade will decrease or in a very clear crimes you will get F from that lecture if only you have an idealist lecturer.

Exactly... And I believe that numereous graduate and under-graduate students apply this kind of work in their projects and essays. However, some of the lecturers do not even make an attempt to take a glance at the papers... This is something terrible for us.

Even if they come across such a thing, no serious or official application is carried on; unfortunately.

You're right there.. Completely.

[NSC]

As you know that one research from england and china show to us turkish universities failed scientific achivement...turkish universities didnt take place in top of 500 universities in the world...

I think there are many reason in here ..freedom of thinking, posibility of research and openinig to file on somebody

maybe one of the reason is Plagiarism...

[il_bilge]

Yes, there are lots of reasons besides plagiarism, you are correct in expressing that.

A research thesis and the works cited for the topic must be first of all "authentic", must confirm its "validity", must be "logical", "scientific".

And the condition necessary for these qualifications lies in the quality of lecturers and students. We do not make proper and official researh in the way it should be. Only to make it sure that we graduate, that's all...

The mentality has to change first...

[orkhun]

plagiarism is not ethic for sure.. but if we've got important works, we should register them with trademarks first.. it doesn't costs too much..

[il_bilge]

Sayın orkhun şöyle demiş:

plagiarism is not ethic for sure.. but if we've got important works, we should register them with trademarks first.. it doesn't costs too much..

Accept my apologies however, what do you exactly mean by that?

[orkhun]

Sayın il_bilge şöyle demiş:

Accept my apologies however, what do you exactly mean by that?

i mean notarizing or affirmation to institute of patent.. legal assurance..