What is Plagiarism? Report 2022

Running head: PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism
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1PLAGIARISM
Introduction
Plagiarism is often generalized as borrowing or copying others ideas which
undermines the seriousness of the offence. Plagiarism is stealing of other people’s work or
ideas and pass them off an original (Yadav, Rawal & Baxi, 2016). It includes uncited
production, quoting from existing work and present new ideas without acknowledging the
previous works. This is a report, where the advantages and disadvantages of plagiarism has
been discussed along with their advantages and disadvantages of it. Additionally, the uses of
plagiarism and intricacies of citations of APA style has been discussed as well.
Discussion
Advantages of plagiarism
The advantages of plagiarism are based on the assumption that it is not detected. The
advantages are as follows:
 Working will become easier as the researchers would not have to think about new
ideas.
 The work can be done faster and without difficulty (Ehrich et al., 2016).
 The researchers need not put any mental effort for their work.
The disadvantages are:
 Plagiarizing others work falls under academic misconduct and thus reflects badly on
the researchers ethics.
 It violates the intellectual property rights.
 People engaging plagiarism are unable learn new things as they limit themselves with
imitating other’s work.