10/17 Wednesday

With all that in mind, discuss in your own words what you consider to be plagiarism. (If you take a direct definition from the source--cite it! If you don’t cite from here on out, you will not get any points on the offending assignment) You might want to include a discussion of the different kinds of plagiarism. What can you do to prevent plagiarism? Include in your discussion something from one of your readings that surprised you.

Plagiarism is basically taking someone else writing or creation and using it for your own benefit with out giving them the credit that is due to them. There are several types of plagiarism. There's full plagiarism which is when a person takes every single detail of some ones writing, idea, or style with out permission. Partial plagiarism is taking several ideas from different authors or from different sources that you find on the internet or in books or wherever you find outside sources. Then you have minimalistic plagiarism is when you have taken a few ideas or some of the authors writing but changed it up a little to make it seem like it's original and that you created it when you didn't. This type of plagiarism is most common with most of the people i know and talk to about writing.  When it comes to preventing plagiarism, in my opinion, it can not be stopped or prevented. Yes, there are consequences for stealing committing this act but there are s=consequences for burglary and murder and people still do it. Plagiarism is pretty hard for me to detect so I wouldn't be able to tell someone not to do it if I was peer reviewing. But I can prevent MYSELF from plagiarism by simply not plagiarizing anything. 

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