Plagiarism Education Essay (Essay Sample)

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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the art of taking one’s ideas literary without acknowledging the source of the idea. This is a rampant crime that is committed in academic writing nowadays primarily by the students. Students often rely on internet materials as their primary source of information that makes them fail to recognize the original author of the masterpiece (Adkins, Cindy and Chi Lo Lim, 17-22). Plagiarism not only make the student to lack independent thinking but also deprives them their creativity of coming up with new ideas. Therefore, it is the source of falsification, piracy and fraud that bring up academic misconduct (Batane, T. 6)
Any work that is already written is protected by its copyright that means the author of the copyright has the capability to sue the plagiarist in a court of law for taking his ideas for granted. Plagiarism is not only desecration of the copyright but also missing to cite from a scholarly published material, as well as a violation of the trademark’s (Adkins, Cindy and Chi Lo Lim, 17). The following things propels one to plagiarize; easy access to materials on the internet, big workload that is put on the student, and lack of enough time to conduct sufficient research.
Plagiarism can be fought in schools only with the use of plagiarism detection tools that should be installed so that students will not submit any work that is plagiarized. This software is found on the internet and with proper utilization of such engines, then students will offer free plagiarized work. Plagiarism is an outcome of unethical education system in high school and middle colleges (Batane, T. 1-8).
Most schools and colleges have come up with regulations that fight against plagi...