Creating a world of your own, but what if someone
copies it? Won’t you feel bad? Or worst angry? I think all of us wants to be distinct
from the others, but what if in simple ways we can’t even do something right.
Stealing something that isn’t ours; one
example of this is plagiarism. We never consider this because we thought it’s
alright but it’s not. Taking something owned by others like ideas, expressions,
compositions, phrases, designs, images, videos, songs and etc is definitely
erroneous when you don’t acknowledge the owner or write the reference. We’re
stealing someone’s hard work like it’s a piece of cake. We always want
everything spoon feed to us; however, this isn’t a good practice especially to
students who tend to like making things easier.
It’s really easy now in our
generation to find resources of answers because of internet and easy access
from magazines, books, newspapers, journals, blogs, profiles and etc. These
things are a blessing and a good advantage for us but sometimes we tend to be
irresponsible; exploiting other people’s work.
According to, Mathieu Bouville, Plagiarism
is a crime against academy. Misleading readers, hurting plagiarized authors,
and the plagiarist takes advantage of the benefits.
I have to say I’m guilty even if I’m
against plagiarism because sometimes it makes it easier but sometimes I hate
that I have the same answers with my other classmates because we all did get it
from the same source. Oh! How I wish mine was the unique one. Nevertheless, I
should have been a good example to my classmates.
We can’t let laziness take over; we
must be responsible and we must work hard. We must learn how to quote, cite,
paraphrase and learn referencing. Let’s be careful and as much as possible
avoid plagiarizing.
Images from:
http://researchguides.smu.edu.sg/c.php?g=421797&p=2881735
http://centerforics.org/whitneyholmes/2015/12/07/the-death-trap-of-plagiarism/
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