Plagiarism: The Disgrace to Academic World - Suppose a student who is asked to write dissertation/essays of his own choice chooses one which has already been accepted as a qualified dissertation is performing plagiarism with intention to deceive the academic community.
“Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed
money, only show the poverty of the borrower”
Lady Marguerite Blessington, Countess of Blessington
This quote by the Lady Marguerite
Blessington amply describes the term plagiarism which is affecting the
academic, literary and research world like a moth. Suppose a student who is
asked to write dissertation/essays of his own choice chooses one which has
already been accepted as a qualified dissertation is performing plagiarism with
intention to deceive the academic community. This makes it clear that plagiarism
is nothing but stealing. As per the 1995
Random
House Compact Unabridged Dictionary, plagiarism has been defined as “use
or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the
representation of them as one's own original work
”. Such unethical and unrealistic deed is certainly a bad news for the
whole of the literary work. In this section, we will discuss the implications
of plagiarism on the academic world, and ways to avoid it. Further, we will
observe the regulations that the government has imposed to curb this practice.
Plagiarism is a shame and disgrace to the academic world: Against the
integrity and Ethics
Academic world, like any other
creative field is based on the originality of thoughts. When students are
taught to write dissertation/essays or any other academic writing, they are
expected to conduct research and write their dissertation/essays on their own. The
academic results can be best gauged from the freshness of the ideas and
concepts. Once this factor is vanished, we can assume that the academic world
is in grave danger. If the dissertation/essays created are copied from an
original source, it is nothing but a shame and disgrace to the whole academic
world. In fact, the main idea behind students are taught to write
dissertation/essays on their own is that the academic institution is aiming at the
overall development and betterment of the students as well as the literary
world. All efforts should be put in to avoid this practice and re-affirm the
belief that something original dissertation/essays can be and should be created,
to bring in more grace to the academic world.
How and up to which extent the student academic performance is affected
The student, who goes to the
academic institution to learn and enhance the literary skills and knowledge of
the actual world scenario, is provided with various dissertation/thesis, essays
and research papers to check the knowledge of the domain. Such activities are
planned to check the compatibility of the subject, and to discover the areas
where the concepts are weak, and to allow them to learn more. Learning is thus
the main objective of such activities. However, if the student copies and
steals the dissertation/essays topic and content from other source, the very
basic of the purpose remains unsolved. Such students whose sole intention is to
copy the previously done dissertation/essays can no longer be honest in their
approach to life. Academic world can be a lot better without such candidates.
Ways to avoid plagiarism
There are several ways to avoid
plagiarism, but the core of the issue lies in self belief and self-motivation.
If one decides that he will not copy the words and ideas in other persons’
dissertation/essays, and will rather try to create something original,
plagiarism will automatically vanish. However, many a times, one needs to
express the idea or a concept in a better way by quoting a phrase or a sentence
from some one who has done that before. In such scenario, one can always cite
the source, and quote the idea or the phrase with due crediting. An example of
such citation is in the beginning of this paragraph. I have quoted Stephen
Gosson, who had previously expressed his views on plagiarism, and such
quotation actually hit the bull’s eye. Besides this, there are several software
and websites which can correctly check whether the words or ideas in the
dissertation/essays have been stolen or not.
Regulation in US and UK to curb Plagiarism
Plagiarism is just like kidnapping
and stealing, and such illegal act certainly calls for an official and legal
procedure to curb this practice. In US and
UK,
there are strong legal acts condemning the practice of plagiarism, and the
offenders can face severe actions such as black listing of the particular
person, and putting a ban on all existing and future works by that person. The
university councils are provided with the required guidelines to terminate the
offender from the institution, and fortify all the existing and future works of
that person.
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