Understanding Plagiarism: Consequences, Types, and Prevention

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2.1. Planning for the essay firstly requires understanding the requirement of the
assignment essay question and then developing a concept map about the different
important points that need to be covered. The thought procedure for developing the
essay should be laid down on paper in systematic ways in the form of a framework.
This framework would be the guiding pathway about how the different aspects of the
topic would be covered and the different literature search that would be done on each of
the aspects separately/
2.2. The first part would mainly require explanation of the concept of plagiarism and so
the first literature search that should be done will be the aspect of “plagiarism” in details.
The second point would be searching on the different types of plagiarism that takes
place. The third point would be showing the results of plagiarism on the lives and
careers of students. The fourth point would cover the arguments about the contributing
factors that lead to plagiarism. This would be followed by a conclusion in the last
paragraph. In this way, I would plan the essay.
3.1. Plagiarism can be defined as the discrete offence made by an individual when he or
she fails to provide credit to a specific source. Researchers are of the opinion that
plagiarism is mainly the utilization of another person’s work, ideas or words without
attribution. The word plagiarism is mainly derived from the Latin word for kidnapper and
is considered a form of theft as well as breach of honesty in the academic community
(Angélil-Carter 2014). Individuals who commit the mistakes of plagiarism are subjected
to severe consequences in their working field that are even seen to include suspension
as well as expulsion from schools, universities and even in other academic fields. This

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assignment will mainly discuss the critical aspects of plagiarism and will shed more light
on the concept that would help to develop wide knowledge about the issue.
4.1. Li and Flowerdow (2018) are of the opinion that the academic fraternity considers a
number of actions that result in plagiarism. Plagiarism can take place by turning the
work of some other authors as own and copying words or ideas from some other
authors without giving specific credits to the author. Moreover, failing to put a specific
quotation in quotation marks or giving incorrect data and information about the source of
a quotation is considered plagiarism. Besides, changing words but copying the entire
sentence structure of the source without providing credit to the author is another form of
plagiarism. Cronan et al. (2018) had stated that the act of plagiarism can be easily
avoided by the concerned individuals by the proper methods of citing sources. This can
be prevented by simply acknowledging that a particular material had been borrowed
and giving the information to the reader or the audience appropriate information to find
the source.
4.3. Another study conducted by the researchers like Harris (2017) had categorized
different types of plagiarism in three basic categories. The first one is the using of
another person’s exact words without the correct application of the quotation marks and
citation. The researchers are of the opinion that if an individual is using the exact same
words of the author, then he or she must be citing the original source either in the
footnote section or in the citation of the text. They can be set within the quotation marks
or else set them off from the different parts of the text by identifying them from the other
text by indenting them from the other forms of text. The second one is the using the
words of another person but changing some of them as well as rearranging them. This