Thursday, July 12, 2012

Academic Integrity vs. Plagairism


Academic Integrity is a  set values you have during your academic career. It is when you are honest about your work. You don’t cheat off others and claim others work as your own.  It is doing what is right even when you have the opportunity to cheat and get away with it. Most of the student’s definitions of academic integrity were similar. They all had something to do with the values you hold in the classroom.

Plagiarism is when you take someone else’s work and claim it as your own. Most of us have a pretty good idea on what plagiarism is but I think the video really put into perspective the different forms of plagiarism. Even If you take an idea from someone else and rewrite it as your own that is still considered plagiarism.

In middle school, I think we have unknowingly plagiarized whether we copy and pasted a work and changed the sentences and rearranged the words or just restating an idea you found from a book or website. The video on plagiarism has taught me to be more aware and cautious of my writing. To think of how I came about the information I am putting in my paper instead of just writing anything I find.

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