I'm just a whee bit angry at the moment. I was talking to some other students about the plagiarising business at tafe. I mentioned something about it to the other students and they were like
"Oh I saw that she was just paraphrasing. I paraphrase so and so's blog so it's okay"
All I could think was
"Were you born a douche bag or were you raised as one?"
I would like to state the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism.
Paraphrasing is when you take someone else's concept and reword in your own words. However if you don't acknowledge your resource within the document it's still considered a form of plagiarism.
Plagiarism is when you out right copy the work word for word and give no acknowledgement, nothing to the original author.
THERE'S NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE!
It pisses me off that people in my class think it's okay to plagiarize a fellow students work or anyone's work for that matter. They don't seem to understand the hard work that goes into creating that document. I would be really pissed off if anyone decided they could copy my work. I know how much effort I've put into my work, and it's not a days worth. It takes weeks to come up the documentation that accompanies the product. Maybe it's the high school mentality that they think it's ok. I think I might have to beat some sense into them!
Unknown " Blytheophile " Purring
- 16 years, 6 months, 18 days ago