Academic Plagiarism and Its Relevance

ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM
AND ITS RELEVANCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Definition and types ....................................................................................................................3
Relevancy in business context ....................................................................................................4
Ways to improve .........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Academic plagiarism refers to presenting someone else's ideas or work as an individuals
ones, with or without there consent, through incorporation in into the individuals own work
without being fully acknowledged. Present report will brief on various types of plagiarism and its
relevancy to professionals in a business environment and will highlight the way for avoiding the
same.
MAIN BODY
Definition and types
Plagiarism is the representation of another authors ideas, language, thoughts or
expressions as one's own original work. It is being considered as violation of integrity related to
academics and breach of journalistic ethic which is being subject to various penalties,
suspensions and various others. In simple words it can be understood as practice or activity of
taking someone's else ideas or work and incorporating or can be said as passing them off as
individuals own. It can also be understood as practices and process of using another person work
or idea and pretending that it to be individual owns. It is stealing of thoughts, opinions of original
writer and passing it to be as individual one and can be termed as original and new an idea
which is being derived from the existing sources. It is being relevant in academic writing as
students who are studying and pursuing any degree has various topics to study and which is
obvious where they might not have knowledge of many, where it might helps a student to get
various thought, ideas and understanding of relevant topic and helps in there academics to get
through various levels and will also help authority to assess about the understanding of
individual on relevant topic and what additional needs to be thought to them which will lead to
student being accountable to various penalties,suspension and others as a result may harm in
there academics (Bailey,Trudy,2018). Direct plagiarism is the word to word copying of a
section of someone else work without any quotation and attribution to the same. Self plagiarism
occurs when a student submits previous work or mixes parts of previous work, without getting
permission of professors involved. Mosaic plagiarism occurs when students borrows phrase
from a source without using quotation or finds the synonyms with the language while keeping to
the original meaning and same general structure. Accidental plagiarism refers to when an
individual neglects to cite a source or misquote their sources or unintentionally paraphrase a