Should i report plagiarism

If your paraphrase goes over a sentence or two, you've probably stopped writing your own words. Signal your source in the text , not just with a reference. If you are in a conversation and think someone else's words are important enough to repeat, you ordinarily explain who said it. Similarly, if a source is important enough to paraphrase, it is important enough to mention in your text, not just in a footnote.

What are the most common kinds of plagiarism? At OU there are three common kinds of plagiarism: whole-paper, cut- and-paste, and cut-and-paste with references. Whole-paper plagiarism. In this form of plagiarism, all or most of the student's paper is lifted from another student or a published source, for example the Internet, a book, or a print article. It is especially bad to buy a paper from any source that offers ready-made term papers.

Students who have engaged in this form of plagiarism in the past have been expelled from the University. Cut-and-paste plagiarism. In this form of plagiarism, parts of a paper ranging from phrases and sentences to entire paragraphs are taken from the Internet or somewhere else and incorporated into the student's paper with no signal that they are not the student's own expression.

Cut-and-paste plagiarism with references. In this form of plagiarism, words or ideas in a paper are included from another source, a reference to the source is included, but there is no quotation signal.

Again, the problem is that a reference indicates only that the accompanying text is somehow derived from or related to the cited source. A reference alone does not show that the text is a direct quotation from that source. Thus a reference alone. A direct quotation with a reference but without quotation marks is plagiarism. What are the penalties for plagiarism? At OU, acts of plagiarism can receive institutional penalties ranging from a letter of reprimand to required coursework to expulsion.

All academic misconduct offenses also receive grade penalties determined by the instructor. Grade penalties are not restricted to the value of the assignment and may be up to an F in the course.

Juniors and seniors who plagiarize any significant portion of a paper should expect at least a suspension for a spring or fall semester. Under the right circumstances even freshmen and sophomores may also receive suspensions or even be expelled for plagiarism. The test in an academic misconduct case is whether the student knew or should have known that his or her actions amounted to misconduct.

Whether or not you learned them in high school, whether or not you took freshman English, whether or not you ever heard a teacher mention them, as an OU student you are expected to know the basic rules of academic integrity. If those basic rules get broken, you are guilty of academic misconduct. Another frequently-heard excuse is that the student included material from another source and then either "just forgot to add the references" or else put them in but "accidentally turned in the wrong draft.

Cut-and-paste papers usually contain lots of directly-quoted material that substitutes for the student's own writing, appears without. In such cases, the quoted text substitutes for the student's own writing. Merely "adding the footnotes" never cures plagiarism if words have been directly quoted. Curing the plagiarism with footnotes and quotation marks often reveals that the student did a lot of copying but very little actual thinking or writing.

Really curing plagiarism means starting from the beginning: thinking and writing first, quoting and signaling as appropriate. Stringing together words downloaded or copied from elsewhere has nothing to do with true writing and is never, ever a good way. Sometimes students "write" a paper not by generating words from their own understanding, but by copying text, then changing a few words so the passage is no longer an exact quotation.

This approach is a form of improper paraphrase. It defeats the purpose of the writing assignment, which is to form a real understanding and then express it in one's own words. If the words and structure of the original are changed enough, the end result of the copy-then-change approach may be different enough from the source that it finally becomes your "own," sort of. Usually, that requires far more work than just writing your own words in the first place. Far more often, the work is only superficially different and the result is a charge of plagiarism.

I usually create several versions of a test to eliminate this problem. I once gave my students a test on the Eugene O'Neill play, Long Day's Journey into Night , where question 10 asked what two emotions were at the core of the play the answer was "guilt and forgiveness".

When a student who was absent came to make up the test, I rearranged the questions. Question 10 was now "List some historical events which took place in when the play was written. Imagine my surprise when this student—who was on the National Honor Society—wrote "guilt and forgiveness" as her answer to this question. She refused to admit she cheated on the test, but she didn't fight the grade I gave her. My most difficult issue with plagiarism and cheating came after a few years of teaching Advanced Placement Literature and Composition.

One day I gave my students the poem "My Last Duchess," and I asked them to analyze its meaning in an essay. I told the students they could talk to one another about the poem, but they could not use the internet or other sources for help.

It became clear when correcting the papers that several students had plagiarized—including the class valedictorian. Again, as was school policy, all students who plagiarized received a zero for the assignment. While most students accepted their fate, the valedictorian did not. He felt he wasn't guilty of plagiarism because he was not the one who got the information online—his friend did—and even though the valedictorian knew the information came from the internet, he did not think he was at fault.

Teachers can avoid issues with plagiarizing and cheating without causing their students to rebel against them; all it takes is a more diplomatic approach to enforcing it. Its annoying to get Fs but do my work It wouldn't be fair for anyone Report their flanks!

They are basically copying someone's hard work word for word out of sheer laziness so they can get an easy A without putting forth any effort whatsoever.

I'd definitely report them if I were you. I'd report them. They're stealing other's work, and would be getting an A for something not made by them. I'd definitely report them. You and everyone else work hard on your assignments and it is an insult to you, the professor, the writer of the Spark Notes, and your classmates that they just copied that down like that. Yes, I would. Plagiarism is a type of stealing.

It is a serious offense, especially at the college level. My teachers have been telling us time and time again for years not to plagiarize, and how harshly we could be penalized for it once we reached college. If you plagiarize in college, you risk getting kicked out of it.

I report it all the time. A friend if mine is a very good artist and he's unfortunately plagiarized all the time, which loses him the recognition he deserves. Funny thing about that most people who would steal work, steal something that's beyond there level of writing and get caught anyway. I would wait to see if the teacher realizes this kid doesn't know half the words on the paper. While I would report them myself, it's very likely he'll get caught on his own. People usually do when they copy something that lengthy verbatim.

Consider this. What if your professor doesn't notice it, and the cheater for that's what he or she is gets a high mark without working for it? That's not fair to the rest of the class, who have put effort into their work.

So, yes, you should report it. Just don't let your classmate find out it was you. As for your final question, think of it this way: would you report an attempted murder to the police even if you weren't the target? I'm willing to bet the answer would be "yes". I been in a lot of heated conversation about this. If the person that is "copying" said content for no Profit then who cares who gets the credit.

It is better to satisfied with "have the job done" then be more concerned " who gets the credit for doing it ". FYI patens do not protect people and there ideas, they only hurt innovation, the future, and moving civilization forward.

Yes, Plagiarism is a serious type of matter that I would be accounted for. And I am not talking about a sentence or two…I am talking about entire paragraphs that were lifted almost completely verbatim, including entire sentences that WERE verbatim from another paper on the subject, including all of the citations and the same, very peculiar and not-by-accident word choices.

The original paper was published by a team of researchers in the U. What would you do? Any advice at all! I have never encountered a situation like this and have no idea how to handle it.

Simply show the RIO what you have observed. I found an interesting case of plagiarism dating back over years ago while preparing a book for republication on Createspace. While preparing this republication I ran across an apparent century old secret. The author of this book, Rev. Leighton Grane engaged in what appears to be plagiarism. It took quite a bit of time to find the book in question, as the actual work has a different name completely.

I did find a passage by one Theodore T. Munger that was almost the same as the one in the book, only the time difference was off by about 20 years. Some words were different, and as it goes the two passages become less alike, but the same idea is there.

I think when you read the two passages side by side you will see quite clearly that this is a classic case of plagiarism. Grane provides plenty of references for the works he used in this publication. So why not with this one? Grane was Anglican, while Munger was a Congregationalist. Anyone with a passing knowledge of English Church history will know that Congregationalists were borne out of confrontation with Anglicanism.

It may be that Grane was not humble enough to admit his source of information was from someone he considered a theological opponent, or even a heretic. Of course this is just conjecture and you can make your own mind up about it. When, sixty or seventy years ago, the famous Caspar Hauser appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, released from a dungeon in which he had been confined from infancy, seeing no human face, hearing no human voice, nor ever seeing the full light of day, a distinguished German lawyer wrote a legal history of the case, which he called, A Crime Against the Life of a Soul.

It was a fitting title. But it is even more accurately descriptive of the process to which so many voluntarily subject their own spiritual nature. Men muffle the voice of conscience, and next time its warning falls weak and muffled upon the will. And the weakness of remonstrance and the ease of resistance grow with every repetition of this wilfulness. Impulses of reverence are drowned in a sea of triviality: men walk by sight until the faculty of faith languishes and dies.

Time and the petty concerns of this life so engross us that the intuitions of Immortality lose their force, and Eternity fades into nothingness. Paralysis sets in, not of the body perhaps, but still more to be dreaded of the soul, paralysis which can have no other end than spiritual death.

When, a half century ago, the famous Kaspar Hauser appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, having been released from a dungeon in which he had been confined from infancy, having never seen the face or heard the voice of man, nor gone without the walls of his prison, nor seen the full light of day, a distinguished lawyer in Germany wrote a legal history of the case which he entitled, A Crime against the Life of the Soul.

It was well named. There is something unspeakably horrible in that mysterious page of history. But it is no worse than the treatment some men bestow upon their own souls. If reverence is repressed, and the eternal heavens are walled out from view; if the sense of immortality is smothered; if the spirit is not taught to clothe itself in spiritual garments, and to walk in spiritual ways: such conduct can hardly be classed except as a crime against the life of the soul.

Theodore T.