Wow, I thought I knew what plagiarism is, but there are some forms of it that I was not aware of. In addition to that, I did not know that there were specific names for the different forms of plagiarism. For example, Ctrl-C and Clone are two obvious forms of plagiarism, but I did not realize that they had names. I was definitely unaware of the Recycle. I think I've been guilty of using my own work in another writing back in high school. (Should I have admitted to that?) I did not know that was plagiarism.
Everything that we write, which includes analysis, is a summary or a paraphrase of everything we have read. THE RULE IN PLAGIARISM IS: CITE THE SOURCES FOR YOUR SUMMARIES and PARAPHRASES. So, to avoid plagiarism CITE EACH SENTENCE! The rules on plagiarism is ridiculous. There are a lot of topics on Covid-19, Climate Justice or International Criminal Law on the Complementarity principle. Yet, the writers are not charged with plagiarism even if what they have written were merely summaries or paraphrases (without citing sources) taken from other similar works. Rule of thumb: Each SENTENCE must be cited!
Plagiarism is actually stealing someone's work. It doesn't portray a good image about a person claiming to be an author. Students must avoid it at all costs. Lecturers must ensure that plagiarism does not happen by initially sensitizing students about it immediately when the program starts
If your high school teacher INSISTS you do this then okay, fine. If you're young and watching this video, this is nonsense. These tips are so overgeneralized and bending over backwards to rewrite a sentence can leave your writing sounding clunky. "I" or "we" only come across as biased and unprofessional if your writing is biased and unprofessional.
Please do not believe this recommendation about the 1st and 2nd person. It does NOT reflect academic practice or current recommendations, and is outright bad language. Moreover, it obfuscates the writer's point of view and who's doing what, exactly. Saying the exact same thing in the passive voice does not make your conclusion or interpretation any more or less objective. False objectivity does more harm than good. Unfortunately, I stumbled on this video because it was the first Google result on "we" in academic texts, but actual academic sources (e.g. Oxford Editing) contradict it entirely. Of course, you will not use them to report basic facts derived from sources, or description of your data, but that goes almost without saying; I can't even think of a likely example. But if I argue something in a text, "I argue" so. If me and my readers will see something in the next chapter, "we will see". This is not the only way (and indeed overuse of the latter, especially, can feel pontificating - I googled the question specifically to find thoughtful opinions on elegant alternatives), but it is entirely standard in high-quality academic writing from the world's most prestigious publishers. The examples are inane, too. "I can't believe how much tuition has increased" is not at all the same proposition as "tuition has increased". The former is informal and your incredulity is probably not relevant to your paper, but IF IT IS, the alternative here provided does not help at all.
Plagiarism is bullshit! I did a research and fully credited the source of the material but I got a zero because someone else used the same source and credited it as well. how can't two people use the same source? this is really unfair. for example if someone wrote that according to Eisenstein theory of relativity then i cannot say according to Eisenstein theory of relativity in my paper!!! do you know someone else who came up with the theory of relativity so i can refer to him in my paper instead??
I know this is four years ago, but I agree because imagine trying to be having your own words into the research you did and then getting canned for it because someone else has something similar. Like what? How's that fair?
This is patented nonsense. Academics use both the first and second person in academic regularly. ("you never want to communicate directly with the reader"... bogus). See Graf and Birkenstein's "They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing."
This is the most perfect example of irony!! A video on plagiarism that copies verbatim from another source without giving ANY credit to that source! Someone below mentions that Turnitin.com is cited in the description, but wouldn't you think that particularly in a video on plagiarism, there would be a slide or something that has that information prominantly displayed??
I have seen some discuss about the use of 1st person. It's showed that a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes. But there are definite much authors to use "We" in their papers. I think we needn't to avoid 1st person in writing brusquely.
So what if I did a retweet, but it was cited, and the blocks were in the middle of sentences, only about 8 words in a row, and they were just statistics? It's such a specific error, I think I'll be fine. I'm worried, because plagiarism is a huge deal.
This makes me nervous. I always considered myself to be a skilled writer and a competent paraphraser. I don't want to inadvertently commit this infraction.
