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Essay on Plagiarism
As plagiarism is a concept precise to a particular culture and era, and is also understood in various ways by individuals, particular notice must be paid to the putting of the phenomenological question, what is plagiarism in its appearing? To combat plagiarism, then, one must not assume that students have a prior grasp of the unequivocal meaning of the notion, but must accept that a process of acculturation is required.
Plagiarize \'pla-je-,riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary]: to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Treatments of academic plagiarism tend to presuppose a common ideological ground in the creative, original individual who, as an autonomous scholar, presents his/her work to the public in his/her own name.
Plagiarism is an issue of pressing current concern, for it seems to be increasing in Higher Education in those western countries in which research has been done.
In the face of the threat posed by plagiarism to the norm of autonomous work, it is often felt that rules of great specificity are needed to cover the range of student work, and the rules have to be sufficiently robust to stand legal challenge.
Plagiarism is copying significant amounts from a published source; not referencing it, and passing it off as one's own.............
