Let me say that again
Copy and
paste, a two way step to get a high score in your assignment. Sad, but it is a
fact that students nowadays tends to copy answers from the internet and present
it as their own. For me it is one of the biggest problems of today’s society.
It is because not only students are doing this but also professionals. To stop
this people must the meaning of plagiarism, the most famous example of it and
the ways to avoid it.
Plagiarism is a form of theft, but in the intellectual side.
This happens when you steal someone else’s idea and uses it as your own. This
includes (as I have said before) copy and pasting answers from the net, copying
a written work and/or using a speech of another person and claiming It is
yours. Since plagiarism is an act of stealing it is considered as a sin. Aside
from being a mistake to the eye of our God. Committing plagiarism also leads
you to messing up with the law.
The republic act No. 893 or the “Intellectual Property
Code of the Philippines” says in its tenth chapter and 193rd section
the right “to require that the authorship of the works be attributed to him, in
particular, the right that his names as far as practicable, be indicated in a
prominent way on the copies and in connection with the public use of his
works”.
Here in the Philippines we got some professionals who
committed plagiarism. Examples are Mr Manny V. Pangilinan. He was subjected to plagiarism
because of his 2010 Ateneo commencent exercise speech. It was discovered that
part of this certain speech and his previous ones had similarities with other
graduation remarks and speeches of some well known figure (U.S. Pres. Barrack Obama is one of them).
There are also act of plagiarism that is committed by our Tourism Department. Remember the “It’s more fun in the Philippines” slogan controversy? They said that the slogan is stolen from the 1951 tourism slogan of Switzerland that say “it’s more fun in Switzerland”. Another controversy is the “Pilipinas kay ganda” logo in the year 2010. The said logo had similarities in Poland’s “Polska” logo.Lastly, who would forget the case Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto? He Plagiarised parts of a blog from Sarah Pope and some words from Mr Robbert Kennedy for his speech regarding the Rh bill. It is ironic because he as part of tenth congress who passed the RA No.8993.
Now that you know the meaning and the famous examples of
plagiarism. It is time for you to learn the ways to avoid committing plagiarism.
I was surfing the net to look for ways to avoid plagiarism
and I stumble upon this site (http://writingcommons.org/index.php/open-text/research-methods-methodologies/integrate-evidence/avoid-plagiarism/393-avoiding-plagiarism).
It is an article written by an author of the name Jennifer Janechek from
University of Iowa. Janechek said that Plagiarism occurs an author uses someone
else’s ideas, words or style in his or her own writing without properly
attributing the information to that source. Janechek also listed the ways so
you won’t be committing plagiarism again. She said that you should put an
in-text citation of the author when you use his/her words or ideas in your
works. If you plan to change the arrangement of words so that you won’t be
caught. Nope that won’t work, rephrasing is still an act of plagiarism. Lastly,
imitating the style of an author is still a form
plagiarism.
The copy and paste habit is a bad practice and it is a
work of the lazy people. I have just realized, if you commit plagiarism you are
already messing with the law, plus you are breaking the #7 commandment “thou
shall not steal”, and because of your laziness you are subjected to the deadly
sin, sloth. Not just that if you are proud and you are saying that it is yours
and you want the all the credits to belong to you. You are already committing
the deadly sins pride and avarice. Wooooh!! I guess that’s too much sins for
just one act. So are you still going to continue that “ctrl c, ctrl v” habits
of yours?
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