Do u know what is plagiarism???????
By vinu949
@vinu949 (639)
India
5 responses
@platypus (334)
• Italy
5 Dec 06
well, if i have well understood, it is a crime many students are guilty of. for example, when their teacher tell them to write a composition about Shakespear and they ( instead of studying, elaborating informations on their own and finally writing them down ) just surf the internet, find one or two good sites and do their homework with ctrl-c -- ctrl-v, that is with copy and paste. :)
it is something not correct, this kind of shortcut is really really bad.
unfortunately, sometimes even journalists or writers do that, earning money and reputation exploiting the hard work of someone else.
@PatriciaL (2080)
• United States
5 Dec 06
Plagiarism is when you steal information from another source and claim it as your own. For example: You write a term paper and instead of writing it yourself, you copy the text from a book or website and present as if you did it yourself.
Or another example would be something that happens here on myLot: Someone makes a discussion, someone reads it, copies the text from the discussion and starts a new one exactly like it with the same information word from word.
@sirievaru (202)
• India
5 Dec 06
I think it is stealing somebody else's views or thoughts and showing them one's own...don't know the exact meaning...did u do that??;)