plagiarism and you

[knight steel]

Ok fellow escapist here the question....have.....you.....ever......EATEN CAKE.Sorry for that joke couldn't help it .Ok heres the real question,have you ever done plagiarism,if so when,what on and why.Disuscss and enjoy.

From Knight Steel

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I have never and will never commit the act of plagiarism.
which makes writing original stuff more difficult.

 

[Smudge91]

Plagerism is bad very bad, i've never done it and will never do it. my college for plagerism threatened expulsion for plagerism so its not really worth it.
ps sorry for the spelling its the morning and mmmm cake.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I have never and will never commit the act of plagiarism.
which makes writing original stuff more difficult.

Indeed, plagiarism...BAD, unless you haven't revised for a meaningless test. You know the kind of thing I mean.

I always love to write something original, and I get a great sense of relief and joy after finishing it. It makes me feel complete when I know I've written 300 MS Word pages of good, original writing.

Muhahaha. My fingers have suffered due to my writing habits though.

 

[bodyklok]

Well I always used to steal stuff from wikipedia when I was in high school, but I wouldn't say I was a plagiarist.

And I won't do it in collage, it was just when I though it didn't matter.

 

[sms_117b]

No, just reference a lot, a hell of a lot.

Apparently I'm not allowed my own ideas, they're already someones...

 

[wazzaman]

No... that would be stupid.

 

[Finnboghi]

Absolutely not - if you're not contributing to the overall knowledge of the human race, you shouldn't be writing in the first place.

This is why universities will expel you (and no other will accept you afterwards) if you plagiarize.

Never, ever do it.

 

[goatzilla8463]

I copy all my friend's homeworks in subjects like maths and french.

I'm so shit at those that it's not even funny.

 

[Beefcakes]

Steal from one, its plagiarism, steal from many?
Research
Don't kill me it was a joke
Haha, I conduct research alot, don't plagiarize though...

 

[MindBullets]

Some pointless report I had to do for Biology homework, back when I was 14 or so.

Did it subtly though. I Copy/Pasted articles from the web, then reworded them a bit, saving me having to actually think up what to write about.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Steal from one, its plagiarism, steal from many?
Research
Don't kill me it was a joke
Haha, I conduct research alot, don't plagiarize though...

I'm totally... not... stealing that!
Yeeheehee. I think I got away with that one.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

Lord no, that's an insta-permaban from my college so I don't mess around with other people's work. I write moderately well as it is so I rarely have a lack of things to say on something.

In highschool I'd occasionally take an online article and change the wording around and pass it off as mine, but that was for some of the more bullshit assignments that they gave me at school

Don't do it, it's not worth the hassle.

 

[traceur_]

I just change a few words and reference EVERYTHING, it's only a bit harder than plagiarism and I can't be punished for it.

I plagiarised a lot in primary school because we were never punished for it, and primary school doesn't mean shit so I wasn't going to put unnecessary effort into it. At high-school, no.

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Even if it wasn't illegal, I still wouldn't plagiarize; I want all my work to be my own.

 

[justnotcricket]

Never. The very thought is disgusting. Seriously. =S I couldn't respect myself if I did something like that.

 

[Samurai Goomba]

Depends. Some would say that anytime you copy the bulk of what somebody else said, it's plagiarism whether you change a few words or not. For stupid tests, I've done the copy/paste+ change a few words bit. I see no reason why I can't use somebody else's research as long as I give them credit or rephrase it.

But there's no way I'm gonna MLA-cite everything I put in anything. Nobody's truly original, and few people in life give proper credit to their inspirations in their respective fields. I shouldn't have to cite my source if I, for example, give the Periodic Table information on an element or compound. It's common knowledge.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

I only plagiarize from myself--if I've already written something that I can use somewhere else, then copy/paste ahoy. (When I was doing my bachelor's degree, I had two separate classes in one semester that required me to see a live performance of some kind and write a review. Why duplicate effort needlessly?)

 

[Just_Karol]

It's not Plagiarism, it's teamwork.... where I get all all of the credit (Notice the sarcasm).

 

[Uncompetative]

Well I copied my friends French homework for many years, each time making one deliberate mistake, each time scoring one less point. Then I got an E U grade on my GCSE O Level. U being Undefined for the Oral/Aural? exam, which I failed spectacularly act as I didn't know more than a clutch of French vocabulary and the examiner got frustrated with me as we were supposed to both speak in conversational French the whole time, so either I was asking him what he meant, forcing him to speak in English, which he didn't want to do, or then he would say that I have to ask him: Que'sce Che por mot "for such-and-such" and then he'd mumble a word I'd never heard of before which he expected me to use

Fun times.

It was all a successful strategy though, as I never wanted to learn a language in the first place, but wasn't given the option.

So, I thought, do it, do it badly, but don't draw attention to yourself as a remedial case by cheating for years.

Je regret rein.