Plagiarism Is A Sin

A RESEARCH PAPER OF PLAGIARISM
A
RESEARCH
PAPER
Submitted By:
Elmon Bandilla
Shannen Mayani
Ma. Margarita Amorante
2016
ABSTRACT
Plagiarism is labeled as an “academic dishonesty” but how odes plagiarism takes
place up to what extent a material can be considered as plagiarized or not. It brings
a lot of confusion to people without knowing that they are now copying the work of
other people. This study aims to inform and be an instrument to guide students to get
back to the ethical norms and prevent them to have further problems. This study also
aims to understand the factors that lead the students to commit plagiarism; they
might plagiarize due to having difficulties in the language use, pressured on the time
and lack of knowledge about plagiarism.
Students who believe that plagiarism is not a serious case and those who think that
other students plagiarize frequently increase their eagerness and confidence to
commit such dishonesty. This research focused over the full range of types of
plagiarism, from using another author’s ideas and thought to submitting an entire
document copied verbatim from another author’s work.

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND
I. Introduction
The issue of plagiarism is common to everyone it is not new especially in the field
of academics. Most of the students are committing plagiarism because of lack of
knowledge, well even professional and famous personalities and even in music
industry are having problem because of plagiarism.
Senator Tito Sotto was also accused of plagiarism twice. During his speech about
contraceptives he did not expect that some part of his speech is from the American
blogger. A UP students was also charge of plagiarism when he enters a photography
contest and submitted not his own work.
Plagiarism is a serious offence now almost everyone is committing mistakes and
underestimating the weight of this problem.
The Revised Penal Code of the Philippines or any special law does not consider
plagiarism a crime, except Section 33(b) of the Electronic Commerce Act.

Use of copyright material without attrition is a criminal offense. Plagiarism is not a
crime but is disapproved more on the ground of moral offense. Plagiarism is
considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, subject to
sanctions like expulsion and other severe career damage. (From Wikipedia.)
Nowadays, there have been countless attempts to detect plagiarism and to punish
plagiarists and give sanctions through following specific ethical rules in higher
education institutions. There are soft wares that can detect plagiarism, but, since it
is quite expensive, not all the universities can afford purchasing it.
In addition, these rules and regulations which aim to discourage the attempt to
plagiarize other people’s work, particularly, the invention of technological
plagiarism detection tools can be truly beneficial and helpful if used by instructors
and institutions effectively and spontaneously (Beasley, 2004).

II. DISCUSSION
How do we define plagiarism? Where does plagiarism originate? What are the
reason of students or even professional in committing plagiarism?
A. Definition and Origin
In dictionary plagiarism, which means “literary theft”, is explained as coming from
the English word “plagiary” which means one who wrongfully takes another’s words
or ideas.
Plagiarizing someone’s work is considered stealing from them. According to
Academic world, especially considers plagiarism a grave crime. While it is alright
to take information from a number of sources. It is also important to cite those
sources and give credit where it’s due.
Sometimes, however, two similar ideas can end up sounding the same. Often two
writers will have the same tone in their writing. This means that many people may
be wrongly accused of plagiarism. This can destroy careers, reputations and can even
end with legal difficulties.

Plagiarism has become a world-wide problem and is increasing day by day. This
problem is increasing further mainly because of the increase in the number of online
publications. Using Plagiarism detection technique, we can compare the given
document with the target/original document. Plagiarism is borrowed from the Latin
Language, meaning "to Kidnap". ( Dr. Steve Organ)
According to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, plagiarism means;
 To snitch and pass off the words and ideas of another as one's own idea.
 Use another's work without crediting the source.
 To commit classical or scholarly theft.
 Present as new or original idea or product derived from an existing source.
PLAGIARISM FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE
Definitions of plagiarism
 Belter & DuPre (2009): “One or more passages that was word-for-word the
same as another source without appropriate citation and quotation marks.” p.
259
 Colnerud & Rosander (2009): “Using parts, or the whole, of a text written by
another person without acknowledgement; submitting the same paper or parts
of it, for credit in more than one course, falsification of information.” p. 506
 Hard, Conway, & Moran (2006): “Presenting, as one's own, the ideas or words
of another person or persons for academic evaluation without proper
acknowledgement.” p. 1059
 Park (2003): “Plagiarism involves literary theft, stealing (by copying) the
words or ideas of someone else and passing them off as one’s own without
crediting the source.” p. 472
 Wang (2008): “Using somebody else’s work (words and thoughts) without
attribution.” p. 743
 Williams, Nathanson, & Paulhus (2010): “Any nonzero percentage detected
by Turn-It-In (after screening).” p. 294 A common element across.
definitions of plagiarism is the act of using another author’s work without
citation, thus portraying it as one’s own work. Other common elements of
definitions include descriptions of the length of the copied text, whether taking
solely ideas from other authors is plagiarism, and the extent that the copied words
were taken verbatim. For the present study, a definition of plagiarism was
developed that addressed these elements: Plagiarism is representing another
author’s ideas or words as your own in course documents or electronic postings.
This would include submitting an entire document by another author as well as using
a portion of text or ideas from another author’s work and not citing the source.
While researching for an important personality that can explain plagiarism more we
found Dr. Steve Ogan.
Dr. Steve Ogan gave the root of plagiarism. According to him “the root causes of
plagiarism is not acceptable to unbelievers, meaning it should even be more so with
believers. Unfortunately, both believers and unbelievers are involved in plagiarism.
Plagiarism is a heart problem. According to the bible Jeremiah 17:9 says “The heart
is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked: who can know it? I, the Lord,
search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and
according to the fruit of his doing”.

B. Reasons Why Students Plagiarize.
Students may or may not be aware that they are committing plagiarism. The open
opportunity and availability of internet that temp students to lift word, phrase, ideas
or paragraph and pasting it without thinking. But there will be no excuse that will
lessen the unethical behavior of students.
According to the research of Kent State University and Middle Georgia University
here are the list of reason why students plagiarize.
 Students may fear failure or fear taking risks in their own work.
 Students may have poor time-management skills or they may plan poorly for
the time and effort required for research-based writing, and believe they have
no choice but to plagiarize.
 Students may view the course, the assignment, the conventions of academic
documentation, or the consequences of cheating as unimportant.
 Teachers may present students with assignments so generic or
unparticularized that students may believe they are justified in looking for
canned responses.
 Instructors and institutions may fail to report cheating when it does occur, or
may not enforce appropriate penalties.

 Students may not know how to integrate the ideas of others and document the
sources of those ideas appropriately in their texts.
 Students will make mistakes as they learn how to integrate others' words or
ideas into their own work because error is a natural part of learning.
 Students may not know how to take careful and fully documented notes during
their research.
 Academicians and scholars may define plagiarism differently or more
stringently than have instructors or administrators in students' earlier
education or in other writing situations.
 College instructors may assume that students have already learned appropriate
academic conventions of research and documentation.
 College instructors may not support students as they attempt to learn how to
research and document sources; instead, instructors may assign writing that
requires research and expect its appropriate documentation, yet fail to
appreciate the difficulty of novice academic writers to execute these tasks
successfully.
 Students from other cultures may not be familiar with the conventions
governing attribution and plagiarism in American colleges and universities.

 In some settings, using other people's words or ideas as their own is an
acceptable practice for writers of certain kinds of texts (for example,
organizational documents), making the concepts of plagiarism and
documentation less clear cut than academics often acknowledge and thereby
confusing students who have not learned that the conventions of source
attribution vary in different contexts.
 Confusion between plagiarism and paraphrasing
 Confusion about terminology
 Careless notetaking
 Perception of online information as public knowledge
 Misconception of common knowledge
 Student ethics and relationship with the College
 Pressure from family, competition for scholarships and jobs
 Poor time management and organizational skills
 Lazy
 Student Panics
Conclusion
The reason why students plagiarize is because sometimes they do not have self-
confident and their self-esteem is low. They are not proud of their works. According
to the survey the causes to plagiarize are many things to do. They had a difficulty in
balancing their time or they are helpless so they look for an easy solution of their
problem. Even though plagiarist is usually plagued by sins such as, lying, cheating,
stealing, covetousness, laziness.
Students who believe that plagiarism is not a serious case and those who think that
other students plagiarize frequently increase their eagerness and confidence to
commit such dishonesty. This research focused over the full range of types of
plagiarism, from using another author’s ideas and thought to submitting an entire
document copied verbatim from another author’s work.
This is a problem in education which deals with the integrity of an individual. It may
connote dishonesty and intellectual theft, but, teachers and professors as well as
those who are in the higher positions should not forget that students are still in the
process of becoming the best possible version of themselves.
They may fall this time, but, as educators, it is their sole responsibility to motivate
the students to rise again and start anew amidst this mistake. Students are still works
in progress. They still have a lot of things to learn. It does not literally mean that the
teacher is tolerating the students, but, it is called tough love. Disciplining and caring
for them at the same time. Once they were guilty of plagiarizing, they must be
punished, but, also be given another chance to correct their mistakes. Everybody
deserves a second chance.

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A RESEARCH PAPER OF PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is labeled as an “academic dishonesty” but how odes plagiarism takes

place up to what extent a material can be considered as plagiarized or not. It brings

and lack of knowledge about plagiarism.

other students plagiarize frequently increase their eagerness and confidence to

document copied verbatim from another author’s work.

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

of academics. Most of the students are committing plagiarism because of lack of

industry are having problem because of plagiarism.

blogger. A UP students was also charge of plagiarism when he enters a photography

contest and submitted not his own work.

Plagiarism is a serious offence now almost everyone is committing mistakes and

underestimating the weight of this problem.

plagiarism a crime, except Section 33(b) of the Electronic Commerce Act.

Use of copyright material without attrition is a criminal offense. Plagiarism is not a

crime but is disapproved more on the ground of moral offense. Plagiarism is

considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, subject to

plagiarize other people’s work, particularly, the invention of technological

and institutions effectively and spontaneously (Beasley, 2004).

reason of students or even professional in committing plagiarism?

A. Definition and Origin

In dictionary plagiarism, which means “literary theft”, is explained as coming from

Plagiarizing someone’s work is considered stealing from them. According to

Academic world, especially considers plagiarism a grave crime. While it is alright

to take information from a number of sources. It is also important to cite those

sources and give credit where it’s due.

end with legal difficulties.

publications. Using Plagiarism detection technique, we can compare the given

Language, meaning "to Kidnap". ( Dr. Steve Organ)

According to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, plagiarism means;

 Use another's work without crediting the source.

 To commit classical or scholarly theft.

 Present as new or original idea or product derived from an existing source.

PLAGIARISM FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE

same as another source without appropriate citation and quotation marks.” p.

another person without acknowledgement; submitting the same paper or parts

of another person or persons for academic evaluation without proper

crediting the source.” p. 472

 Williams, Nathanson, & Paulhus (2010): “Any nonzero percentage detected

by Turn-It-In (after screening).” p. 294 A common element across.

definitions of plagiarism is the act of using another author’s work without

citation, thus portraying it as one’s own work. Other common elements of

developed that addressed these elements: Plagiarism is representing another

author’s ideas or words as your own in course documents or electronic postings.

found Dr. Steve Ogan.

plagiarism is not acceptable to unbelievers, meaning it should even be more so with

believers. Unfortunately, both believers and unbelievers are involved in plagiarism.

according to the fruit of his doing”.

B. Reasons Why Students Plagiarize.

lessen the unethical behavior of students.

here are the list of reason why students plagiarize.

no choice but to plagiarize.

documentation, or the consequences of cheating as unimportant.

 Teachers may present students with assignments so generic or

may not enforce appropriate penalties.

sources of those ideas appropriately in their texts.

 Academicians and scholars may define plagiarism differently or more

stringently than have instructors or administrators in students' earlier

education or in other writing situations.

academic conventions of research and documentation.

requires research and expect its appropriate documentation, yet fail to

appreciate the difficulty of novice academic writers to execute these tasks

governing attribution and plagiarism in American colleges and universities.