Brenton
AhmedPlagiarism
July 23rd 2007 07:43
Perhaps there should be a post somewhere that explains how to correctly attribute work so no-one falls into the plagiarism trap.
When Mrs M left the above comment on a post by Nick, I figured that it the someone mentioned might as well be me. So here is my guide to plagiarism, so far as I see it as relevant to blogging.
Plagiarism is where one takes the material of another, and claims it as their own. You can avoid doing this one of two ways. A: Be as original as you can with your content, taking personal experience and fisrst hand or accumulated knowledge as your article's basis. B: Reference where the original idea/article came from.
So. We know you don't have to thank anyone if you made it up, or if it's common sense. Some examples of this include;
My cousin said...
It's well known that the Nazi's were brutal...
However, the latter one, while not plagurism, could use a link to a source to identfy credability.
Now. What IS clearly plagarism. If I tell a witty anecdote that is word for word what somebody else said, or rephrases what they said - that is plagurism.
If I use somebodies main ideas without referencing, then that's borderline.
The good news here (and there is good news) if that if you're plagurising somebody, you'll know it. If you still don't really get it, here's a little checklist.
* Is the Entire work and all ideas my own?
* IF NOT Have I given credit to the source of the ideas?
* OR have I divulged whom I am quoting?
* IF I AM QUOTING directly have I permission to do so?
* IF NOT am I taking a small reasonable quote?
If you get to a solid no? That's plagurism.
The main rule though, above all else.
Don't do anything to upset people. And make sure you're being smart and not oversensitive before accusing somebody of plagurism.
When Mrs M left the above comment on a post by Nick, I figured that it the someone mentioned might as well be me. So here is my guide to plagiarism, so far as I see it as relevant to blogging.
Plagiarism is where one takes the material of another, and claims it as their own. You can avoid doing this one of two ways. A: Be as original as you can with your content, taking personal experience and fisrst hand or accumulated knowledge as your article's basis. B: Reference where the original idea/article came from.
So. We know you don't have to thank anyone if you made it up, or if it's common sense. Some examples of this include;
My cousin said...
It's well known that the Nazi's were brutal...
However, the latter one, while not plagurism, could use a link to a source to identfy credability.
Now. What IS clearly plagarism. If I tell a witty anecdote that is word for word what somebody else said, or rephrases what they said - that is plagurism.
If I use somebodies main ideas without referencing, then that's borderline.
The good news here (and there is good news) if that if you're plagurising somebody, you'll know it. If you still don't really get it, here's a little checklist.
* Is the Entire work and all ideas my own?
* IF NOT Have I given credit to the source of the ideas?
* OR have I divulged whom I am quoting?
* IF I AM QUOTING directly have I permission to do so?
* IF NOT am I taking a small reasonable quote?
If you get to a solid no? That's plagurism.
The main rule though, above all else.
Don't do anything to upset people. And make sure you're being smart and not oversensitive before accusing somebody of plagurism.
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Comment by katyzzz
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Are you sure this is your own original idea? You are brave. Earned 20c in the survey, seems to pay better than Google, not a lot 'tho is it?
Palagiarism can be a bit dicey at times.
I'm too afraid to speak nowadays, you know me....timid! Good post.
katyzzz
Comment by Louie
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If only something I will write will ever be my thought.......I blam sesame street
Comment by StephenP
My definition of plagarism is when you spend every Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday arvos / nights compiling match reports for your own blog and another sports site, and than find that someone who applied to write for your blog has in fact been copying and pasting your work for a fortnight, and passing them off as his own original pieces!!
Let's just say that I know of someone (extremely well, could pass as my twin even) that this happend to, and they were not impressed!!
Cheers mate, and keep up the good work - I often drop by, but am too lazy to comment!
StephenP
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Comment by David
As to Nick's posts? When I accused Orble Australia's, off-shore, self-appointed King of Anti-Plagiarism of plagiarism (and rightly so), he just altered the post itself, and deleted my comments. What does that say?
Plagiarism is plain and simply taking the credit for someone else's ideas or writing. It's an intellectual property crime analagous to robbery or burglary. You steal someone else's possessions and claim them as your own. For what end? Profit? Or just getting people to like you?
A professional writer capable of producing original works consistently doesn't have any fear or worries over amatuers plagiarising his/her works because he/she knows the amatuer will be found out eventually. The professional writer tends to continue producing original works.
It's really all about honesty. Being true to yourself and true to others.
Without descending into the absurd, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the creators of the dictionary, our teachers, and every writer who ever went before us.
Who taught us to write? Who inspired us to write if not those who went before us? Who instilled a love of words and writing into us. A debt of gratitude to our parents, perhaps?
But, at the end of the day, if pays to just write in your own original voice, not download, cut & paste other people's work and revel in a few Bloggers thinking you're brilliant or the funniest guy on the planet.
Two of the greatest pieces of advice I was ever given? Dont' use cliches. If you've seen it in print, don't use it.
But since people refuse to be taught anything about writing (because they want everyone to know they learned the craft all by themselves?) what's the bloody point? Bloggers in the main are cliche-ridden, plagiarists who bang on about anything but what professional writing is all about because they already know everything about everything. God forbid someone would teach them something they didn't know, even about plagiarism.
Comment by KylieW
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Good post. Some solid advice.
Kylie
Comment by Cibbuano
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I think the best way to use someone else's material is use the quote function in the Orble post editor, like so:
See, it's obvious that I didn't say that. Someone else did, who I then quoted.
The informal rule is that if you take a photo or quote text, you should provide a link back to that original post, in the form of a hyperlink - not just cutting and pasting the link.
Comment by Brenton
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Who's been speaking such slander, Cibby?
*sniff*
OK, point taken,
Comment by Lily
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hahahahaha, i'm sorry, but i cant reply now after reading that.... .
shuddup it was funny to me ok
~Lily
Comment by Brenton
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