According to an online source, “plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium” (n.d).
The Council of Writing Program Administrators admits that “plagiarism has always concerned teachers and administrators, who want students’ work to represent their own efforts and to reflect the outcomes of their learning. However, with the advent of the Internet and easy access to almost limitless written material on every conceivable topic, suspicion of student plagiarism has begun to affect teachers at all levels, at times diverting them from the work of developing students’ writing, reading, and critical thinking abilities”.
I must say that plagiarism is almost everywhere. Some had been reported and most are left unnoticed. Internet made a way for students to finish their work as convenient as it can be but is not made to copy someone else’s work without proper citation. I was once guilty with such crime but I learned not to plagiarize. With news reported and as law stated, I shall be a responsible writer at all costs.
There are millions of ways to avoid plagiarism. Copying other’s work is fine but copying without citation is something a person must avoid. Best way I must say is to research about the topic thoroughly until you have enough knowledge to paraphrase and combine ideas and have your original work with words of your own. This will help you to avoid plagiarism and at the same time learn more about the topic.
References:
http://wpacouncil.org/positions/WPAplagiarism.pdf
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php
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