| Author | Plagiarism |
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| The issue is whether you are standing on the point of legality or on school ethics. Legally you can paraphrase or do minor adjustments to the original work without any trouble. But for school ethics and professional literary works, you need need to cite anything you quote, paraphrase, or modify. |
| what are schools to state what's right and what's wrong? ethics are opinions. law is law |
| ^loophole? |
Not a loophole.
Usually this is how the list goes from most lenient to strictest:
Letter of the law
Spirit of the law
Courts
Professional works
Academic works
Ethics / Morality |
| why are opinions more strict? they aren't official and should not have any power at all! |
| Back to #1, yes, full stop. |
Here's another definition. Dictionary.com
pla·gia·rism
1.the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
Any piece of school work you submit, you are saying it is your work. You have closely imitated the language or thoughs of another author and represented it as your own. A simple black and white case of plagiarism.
In regards to 22. In the future, lets say you do a job where you are meant to be creative. Try to copy someone elses work with a few tweeks and see how your boss likes it.
This is a classic case of someone wanting to find an out and trying to bend the rules to get that out. It was plagiarism. Simple. |
