Plagiarism essay

What is plagiarism?

Basically plagiarism is when you use someone else’s work and try to pass it off as work that you have done yourself. It’s copying another person’s work and keeping it as your own so that you don’t have to do anything yourself. It’s taking information that it not your own but telling people that it is yours to try to pass your assignments. It can end up being quite serious if you do this with your work.

How can it happen?

Plagiarism happens by taking work done by someone else and giving it in as work that you have done yourself. It can also happen by copying parts of information from the internet or books and not giving a reference about where you got it from originally and about who wrote it originally.

What could happen if you plagiarise?

If you make the mistake of plagiarising someone’s work as your own then it’s quite likely that you will fail that particular assignment and it’s possible that you could get expelled, but if it’s a bigger thing than just a college assignment then you could get fined for it.

How can you make sure you don’t plagiarise?

To make sure that you are not plagiarising someone’s work as your own then you need to make sure that when you use information that’s not your own from books or the internet that you must leave a reference in your work to show where you got it from exactly, who made it and when you got it.

What is plagiarism?

• [1]to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own
• to use (another’s production) without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• To present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

 

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[1] http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html date accessed 3rd February 2010

Blogs went well, still got to edit my intro bog though but i need to get the tape from the person that had it after me to get my work.

Cadets blog was good but found some things i could improve on when i do another one. Basically all the work is going well, got another two blog assignments to do so hopefully they’ll turn out well and i’ll get good marks for them  !!

Last film seen: Austin Powers: the spy who shagged me.

Last music heard: Hotel Room Service by Pitbul.

Last book read: Breaking Dawn from the Twilight books by Stephanie Meyer.

What, in human history, do you wish had never been invented and why?  The thing I wish that was never invented is bombs because they cause too much trouble and I don’t think they are really needed for someone to solve their issues against something.

What would be your ”fantasy” dream job and why? My fantasy dream job would be to be a famous photographer with my own galleries because I love taking photo’s and would like to hear what other people think of them.

Whats the worst piece of advice you’ve ever been given?  The worst piece of advice I have ever been given was to go down a water flume at a swimming pool on a rubber ring when I couldn’t swim and don’t like water.

What is your favourite website and why? My favourite website is facebook because I can keep in contact with my family and friends.

Who, in the whole of history, would you like to sit next to on a long haul flight and why?   If i was on a long haul flight and could sit next to anyone I would choose Lee Evans beacause he always has something funny to say.

Name something or someone you truly believe in.  I believe that everything happens for a reason.

If you had to be stranded in any one place in the world where would you like to be?  I f I was stranded I would like to be in New York because I went there when I was in sixth form and loved it !

Which public figure do you think is the most overrated?   The public figure that I think is most overrated is Paris Hilton.

I’ve chosen Zefranks blogs to do my review about. He makes his blogs funny by doing random things like songs that he made himself but he also includes small bits from the news to inform people about things that are happening.

Zefrank makes conversation with the audience by reading the comments his viewers leave him and choosing one to attempt to answer in his blog. He calls his viewers and fans ‘Sport Racers’ and his viewers that do things he says get included in the ‘The League of Awesomeness’.

To make sure he gets everything in that he wants to include, he goes quite quickly and moves from one thing to another. He also talks quite quickly to ensure he gets everything in.

I enjoy watching his blogs as he tries to interact with the audience as much as he can and is quite funny. I think people watch his blogs because he is funny and interesting at the same time.

Hiya, this is my first blog !!

Started college not too long ago and just getting used to blogging for an assignment we have.