Is plagiarism cheating?Explain pleeease!!?
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Plagiarism is defined by the Honor Council document as "the act of passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another." In the Appendix to the Honor Council pamphlet called "Acknowledging the Work of Others" (which is used by permission of Cornell University), three simple conventions are presented for when you must provide a reference:\n \n1. If you use someone else's ideas, you should cite the source. \n2. If the way in which you are using the source is unclear, make it clear. \n3. If you received specific help from someone in writing the paper, acknowledge it. \n\nIf you follow these three steps it is not cheating, if you don't, yes you are.\n\nI hope this helps....\n\nDon
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PLAGIARISM.\nDon't do it.
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Plagiarizing sucks.  You can live without it, its just easier for you to live with it.  Your teaching yourself bad habits for the future, in the aspect of searching for easy way outs even within breaking rules.  You're definately not the only one that does it, but it still doesn't make it right.
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Is this your homework?cheater...look it up on Google
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To plagiarize is to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=plagiarize).\n\nIf you plagiarize for profit it is intellectual property theft (civil, not criminal).  If you plagiarize for school there is no legal repercussion, but you may get expelled depending on school policy.
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I'd say try a Limewire search for documents with the subject of the report you're looking for.  While reports written by other people don't fall under copyright violation, they do count as academic dishonesty if you try to pass it off as your own work.
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Copying information from websites is called plagiarism, and some schools have software which can tell if you have tried to pass someone else's work off as your own.
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what do you mean by "a site that you cannot access"?\n\nwell - plagiarism itself is not, in fact, a crime.  certainly it is taboo in the academic world, but nobody's ever gone to jail for plagiarism. \n\nhowever, if someone in academia is copying your work and passing it off as their own, the best thing to do is to contact the dean of their school or department and let them know.  it is taken very seriously in higher education and the offender will almost certainly be seriously punished.\n\nif, on the other hand, it is not in an academic context, you may be talking about copyright infringement.  if someone is reprinting, publishing or distributing your work without your explicit permission, that IS illegal.  \n\ntalk to a lawyer, who will take the first step of sending the website's owner a "cease and desist" letter, demanding that they remove the offending content.  if the website's owner does not remove the content, you can sue them for copyright infringement, and if the court finds in your favor it will issue an injunction against the site's owner, which is a legal order to remove the content.  if they still refuse, they can be imprisoned for contempt of court.\n\nof course, hiring a lawyer and suing someone is really quite expensive - even a relatively cheap lawyer bills at several hundred dollars per hour, and on top of that are court fees etc - and following through on such a thing would likely end up costing you several thousand dollars.  so you may decide in the end that it's not worth it to go down this route.\n\none thing you could try is the "nice guy" approach and mail the owner of the website (you can find out who this is by doing a "whois" search for the domain name - search the web for whois services) and send them a letter explaining, nicely, that they are reproducing your work without permission and you would like them to take it down.  it's cheap and easy and may very well work.\n\ngood luck!
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Even if you change the wording--it is still PLAGIARISM, which is why you can not do it.  You need to read several resources, analyze the material,and then put it in your own words, but you still need to document your sources.\n\nDo not think you can copy something and get away with it, because eventually you will get caught with serious consequences.  It is better to be extra cautious than sorry when it comes to writing papers.\n\nI chair a scholarship committee and students think they can cheat by copying from the Internet.  We compare papers, and it is so obvious.  Changing a few sentences does not hide the fact it was copied. Unfortunately, those students miss out on being awarded scholarships.
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Probably because no one has any talent and they just copy and recopy everything that's already been done.  In music they call it "sampling", in literature they call it plagiarism.  Go figure...
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Talk about the US culture? What about it? Your question is too vague. Sorry.\n\nTo DemoDicky ~ unless you site the work (which is not your own) and name your sources, you are committing what is known as plagiarism. The true author of the answer you listed is below. \nIf the link is followed,(to wikipedia) you will see even that article sites it's sources. I, personally, have little use for those who take credit for the hard work of others.
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Ok, now that is just plain cheating. Read the book. When I was a kid, we didn't have the internet to cheat with homework. No wonder the newspaper headlines are screaming:\n\nWhy are our kids idiots??
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At my university (and I would imagine at most others), it is definitely considered cheating, and sanctions for doing it range from a reprimand to losing credit or being removed from the university.\n\nSpecific quote: "Multiple submission - submitting the same paper or oral report for credit in two courses without the instructor's permission; making minor revisions in a paper or report for which credit has already been received and submitting it again as a new piece of work." \n\nIf you're just reusing old material, you're not actually learning anything from the course, are you? (That'd be the general you, not a specific you!) It's often in the process of writing an essay that I figure things out and finally "get" them :)\n\nEdit: just noticed that someone else gave the same site - I wasn't expecting another answerer from my university!
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Grab a pencil and paper...turn on the lights upstairs o.0 and think!\n\nCommon, stop asking people to do your homework. I'm not sure if it's a violation of the rules but I doubt yahoo wants to be sued for aiding and abetting minors in plagiarism.
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http://turnitin.com/static/home.html\n\nTurnItIn.com\nA really good site for catching plagiarists and cheaters.  Does your school employ it?
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Plagiarize &#92;'pla-je-,riz also j - -&#92; vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n \n\nFor more on this practise go to :\n\nhttp://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samplagiarist.html
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Write one. :)\n\nAre you looking for specific information, or just looking for one to plagiarize?