Plagiarism is an activity where someone copy or imitate other’s/own work, innovation, ideas or path without having proper knowledge or make the matter easier. In today’s world we can observed many forms of plagiarism including in physical world or virtual world. Through plagiarism one may succeed in short run but in long run he/she must have the consequences.
Throughout further studies we found bellow mentioned plagiarism;
Direct plagiarism : Presenting someone’s work word for word as own work in short we may say copy paste.
Self-plagiarism: Using someone’s own previous work or in short, a little acknowledged form plagiarism is self-plagiarism.
Mosaic plagiarism: Collect data from different sources and present combinedly through using synonyms.
Accidental plagiarism: It happens unconsciously where the some one forget to mentioned reference.
Plagiarism has some advantage as well as has more disadvantages. In short advantages are may:
Easy to present
Short Time success
Time and Effort saving
Short time hero
On the other hand disadvantages are,
Professional Haggard
Academic penalties
Loss personal honesty
Hamper personal learning
Legal action may taken
Social reputation my spoil
We can avoid plagiarism trough taking some action like,
Recognize the source.
Add quotation
Make paraphrase
Present own idea
Understand the usages
Review the polices
Use plagiarism checker
Increase public awareness.
In the end we can say if we avoid plagiarism it will enhances credibility and ethical standing which will encourages creativity and critical thinking and it will build trust with readers, peers, and collaborators which ensures compliance with academic or professional standard.