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Friday, May 28, 2010
Students learn best by "copying" from example and careful interpretation of gathered information. That is, of course, my opinion as many students may not have used this method at all. The first step to my provided example would definitely be called plagiarism if not accompanied by the second step, and even so there is still a small chance of it not making it past the "plagiarism boundary". Plagiarism is an offense. It is the reproduction of a work done by another, and representing it as one's own. However, how much of it is relevant? Some ideas may have been coincidentally thought about without prior information that the idea has already been produced. As an old saying goes, "Great minds think alike." Would that mean the later "Great minds" are plagiarisers? That would be a hilarious but worthwhile statement to comprehend. While researching current views on Plagiarism, I was interested in a particular type of plagiarism - not done by students, but by the educators themselves. There have been incidents whereby students' works have been reproduced by their very own teachers. Back then, we were students who had no knowledge of intellectual property. All we cared about was finishing our assessments and run off to the canteen for our food and games. A friend of mine had his work submitted just like the rest of us. A year later, he had found his work, an exact replica, in the school magazine under the tutor's name - and there was no way he could prove that the work was his. As friends, we were very frustrated at our inability to do justice to that wayward tutor. However, he was not at all angry. In fact, he was happy that his work was published, even under the tutor's name. This shows that authors may not necessarily care about having the proper accreditation. Emphasis on such "copying of ideas" is in my opinion, excessive and may not even address any issue at hand. Originally stated in an Abstract by Mr Brian Martin, Sourced from http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/94jie.html "Plagiarism is conventionally seen as a serious breach of scholarly ethics, being a theft of credit for ideas in a competitive intellectual marketplace. This emphasis overlooks the vast amount of institutionalized plagiarism, including ghostwriting and attribution of authorship to bureaucratic elites. There is a case for reducing the stigma for competitive plagiarism while exposing and challenging the institutionalized varieties." -Percy
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