Plagiarism: A Textual Analysis

When it comes to artist’s muses there is a fine line between inspiration and plagiarism. If one tries to define the areas where art starts plagiarizing a body of work, they will most likely end up fighting in circles. It is difficult to constitute where plagiarizing begins and inspiration ends. Artists have been including copyrighted or trademarked work into their own pieces and then calling it their own for decades, possibly even longer. Nowadays artists from all ends of the world are basing their work around preexisting pieces or are using the likenesses surrounding them. This doesn’t rest in the art world either. Just recently in the news, there was a report that a successful lawsuit was brought against Robin Thicke for his hit song “Blurred Lines.” Marvin Gaye’s estate brought a lawsuit against Thicke for ripping off Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up.” The ruling was in favor of Gaye, resulting in Thicke owing $7.3 million to Gaye’s family in damages (Grow, Kory). This case and other cases have light shed on them from the media and then public debates ensue about which party is in the right. Society has an array of opinions when it comes to copyright, fair use, and appropriation. Many people do not understand the specifics about copyright laws nor do they comprehend how one can truly break these laws fully. More often than not, people are familiar with at least the phrases copyright, appropriation and fair use. But the legitimate points are fairly skewed by the public.

I concur with Gurney’s argument based on the free ride many students take in college due to the easy access of plagiarized work. Plagiarism refers to the practice of using someone else's work and passing it off as one's own. There is an old Caribbean saying that goes, “What you put in is what you get out.” This simply means that one cannot accomplish their goals fairly without putting in the necessary time and effort. For instance, Gurney’s article stated, “It is much more valuable, that diploma in hand, when you earn it yourself". Plagiarized work does not benefit one because he or she is using someone else’s opinion and experience instead of their own. This does not allow one to learn more about the particular topic and to express their

Hi Crystal , I have the same problem with paraphrase. I will try to summarize a source material to explain a point of view. I unaccidently ended up paraphrase a paragragh out of the text book. Which cause me mess up my references and in text citations. That’s why I try to use proper essay structure, free writing and writing down points to make sure is my APA style correct (Chamber,n.d; Ridley,n.d)

Today you will check for plagiarism on two documents, one about Dr. Martin Luther King and another document that you have created for another class that you have saved in your Google Drive (like ELA for example).

Plagiarism is something that is not hard for the person that plans ahead and takes credit for their hard work (Bethel University, 2013). I will not have any kind of hard time dealing with plagiarism. The only issues that I am concerned with is the format of my APA citing. I have been with Bethel University for almost a full two years now and it is different with every class that I attend. Every professor has a certain method or style that they prefer to be used in their online classroom. Usually the first Discussion post that I complete in any given course is when I find out exactly what to expect. Although I don't consider it to be "plagiarism", if it is not cited correctly, technically it is.

There are 6 different types of plagiarism and its important for everyone to know what they are. Deliberate Paraphraisng, doesn't need much of an explanation as it says what it means in its name. Patchwork Paraphrasing, is taking what you've read and bascially patched them together. Bluffing, is reading a particualr text and taking what you've read and re-writting

Plagiarism what that it could be material things about personal things and such that means if someone was to take something that I’ve done and try to make it their own they basically really are taken away from and taking credit for himself so they stole my material without my permission I do if I found one of my colleagues recite someone else’s work in class I would try to reach out to that person and let you know I’ve read the article and that he was recited Word for Word that he was trying to take credit for somebody else’s work and I would explain to him, not only explained I would show him how that is to try to help him and if that doesn’t work then I would go to the teachers or instructors and explain to them what a satiny so maybe they

How do not understand how or why Turnitin is saying that my paper is plagiarism. Minus the two cites that I have, everything else is all me. I took my paper through a website that I used to help me with my grammar and it said before I submitted and after I submitted my paper that there were not any plagiarism phrases in my work. So, my question to you, so I don’t not have this happen to me again is, are there any other websites I can run my next paper through to make sure this doesn’t happen to me again? I’m sorry if this is coming off wrong, I’m just a bit discourage that I am being accused by a website of plagiarism and the site I use states otherwise. I will still take attempt to revise my paper and have it turned in to you

Here is a short video on plagiarism. This video discusses: what plagiarism is, when citations are needed and tips to avoid plagiarizing. It also gives additional websites to get more information on APA, MLA and plagiarizing.

Whether you are writing an article to be published on a company website or you

In the second session, the instructor introduced the sixth edition of APA Publication Manual and briefly described the contents of each chapter using MS Power Point. The instructor mainly focused on Understanding the Academic Writing Puzzle, “Crediting Sources” including Citation, plagiarism, self- plagiarism, quoting and paraphrasing.

Originally I wouldn’t have thought that incorrect paraphrasing would be the hardest type of plagiarism for me to avoid, but for me it is more difficult to paraphrase than to use direct quotes. To paraphrase is to “put the author’s ideas completely into your own words instead of creating some odd combination of the text’s original wording and your own” (Ridley, 2016, p, 7). I have to admit when I first heard this in our attend section, it made me wonder whether or not I was paraphrasing correctly. It is more of second guessing myself, since I am still learning more about the subject of writing with every lesson. This week’s reading refers to incorrect paraphrasing as “inadequate paraphrasing” or “plagiaphrasing” (Bethel University, 2016, p.

The Little Book of Plagiarism written by Richard Posner uncovers the scope of what plagiarism is within different aspects of society. Kaavya Viswanathan signed a two-book contract with Little, Brown at age 17-years-old. Her first book, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” was published in April 2006. Her sophomore year at Harvard University, the Harvard Crimson discovered that her book had reproduced almost exact passages from novel by an established author, Megan McCafferty. A company of book packaging had helped Viswanathan to conceptualize and plot her book, but there was no indication that the company shared responsibility for her plagiarisms. In their findings, they confirmed there was 13 plagiarized passages that were

Barnbaum) If there is a direct quote that would be useful then the quote needs taken directly with both quotes and citations, or when paraphrasing information it needs to be cited. If neither of these is done then it is plagiarizing. (C. Barnbaum) This form of plagiarism is what I think a lot of people do because they may agree with another person’s thoughts and then want to make it in to their own so they will change a few words around to make it sound like their own words. The third type of plagiarism I have found is called "Style Plagiarism." (C. Barnbaum) This plagiarism is said to be the most common trap that students fall into. (C. Barnbaum) Even if you aren’t copying word for word but the same sentence or paragraph order is followed then this would be plagiarism because this is considered taking the authors "reasoning style." (C. Barnbaum) Plagiarism does not always mean copying information but it can also be stealing the writing format as well. I think this can be considered a trap because people think it’s not okay to steal information but taking the order, outline, flow, or style it is written in is different but really it is still a form of plagiarism. The next kind of plagiarism is called "Metaphor plagiarism" which is not always taking information word for word but using the same comparison or words to describe something. (C. Barnbaum) An original idea that someone else takes

Innovative is the most pronounced word now-a-days. Any place, whether it is school, college, work place innovation is of utmost importance. We are expected to complete home work or a assignment by our own thinking or thought process.