Academic Plagiarism: Types, Factors, and Consequences

Academic Plagiarism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
References:.......................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Academic plagiarism is defined as the copying or representing the other author's or
writer's idea to make the own selves originality. The following discussion is made on the concept
of plagiarism in context of different business examples or professionalism, it's types, factors
affecting plagiarism and how it affects on human or student life if they apply in their real time
organization or in their university (Brown and Janssen, 2017).
MAIN BODY
There are various features or characteristics included in plagiarism in context to some
organization, those are, it has a feature of transforming of someone else's work to own self work,
copying someone else's words, ideas, thoughts and their originality without giving any credit to
them. If someone has copyrighted or patented their work and than also someone else is copying
that than it can be legally wrong and that person can file a case against the person who has
copied. Work can be either music, videos, images, text, statements, poems or any original work
created by someone's talent and their own creativity. Plagiarism act is not considered good in any
professional field because professionalism demands the original creativity and innovation with
new ideas and thoughts. For example, if Colgate company uses the same content as the
Pepsodent toothpaste uses for marketing or in any other business operation then the Pepsodent
company can make the charge of plagiarism and can case a file against the Colgate of copying
their content which was purely original. Therefore in professionalism, plagiarism features are
negative and cannot be copied at any cost. But if any company wants to copy some other
company's original content than they can charge a heavy fees for copying or ensures that the
company must get the credit for the same of using their original content. It can only be done if
the content is copyrighted or patented by the firm (Cronan, Mullins and Douglas, 2018).
There are many types of plagiarism exist in many forms, those are, direct plagiarism
which means that the content have been copied from word to word, no changes are done while
copying the content that means the exact content is copied from it;s originality. Hired plagiarism
means that a person is hiring someone to write their content and pays a fees to them for buying
their original content like essay writing, report writing, making power point presentation and
many more so in this case the writer cannot claim their originality because they were being paid
for the same. Borrowed plagiarism means that some close friends are borrowing each others
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