What I’ve always known plagiarism to be is when someone
copies the work of another person and doesn’t give them credit for it. This
could be a simple phrase without citation or a whole paper for a class written
by someone else. In the NPR article, it
discussed how Rich Juzwiak, a blogger, brought about the point to NPR that they
pretty much stole his idea for a video about cell phones in scary movies. There
were a lot of disagreements involved and NPR claimed that it was a coincidental
issue that wasn’t meant to happen the way it did. I was surprised at how big
the issue was blown up. I didn’t think it was that big of a deal and that the
guy should have calmed down a bit. Even more surprisingly, there are 5 types of
plagiarism. The first is copy and paste, which is self-explanatory. The second
is word switch. Taking a sentence and switching around the words doesn’t make
it any less plagiarized, so always gotta’ be careful with that one. The third
is style plagiarism. This one is kind of harder to explain, but basically it’s
when you write something in the same order as your source but using different
sentences in more of your own words. You cannot have the same outline as the
original author, which I think is ridiculous, considering some people don’t
realize they do that. I mean, why does it matter? If you still cover all the
information needed and you formulate your own sentences you should still
receive credit. The fourth type is metaphor plagiarism. Pretty much, you need
to come up with your own metaphor or you have to cite the one you use. They
should just categorize this one with the first type. The last type is idea
plagiarism. This one’s confusing to me, but I think it could apply to
disagreements about someone stealing someone else’s idea which is pretty
common. Just be careful when writing a research paper, or doing a research
project guys.
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