Understanding Plagiarism for Ensuring Quality Original Work
Some authors commit intellectual immorality by stealing ideas, texts, words, formulae, designs, or inventions of other authors without attributing them to original writer/credit. This is an example of academic dishonesty. using someone else’s work as our own, with or without their full acknowledgment is known as plagiarism. In the present information-loaded world, the global IT Wizard, Bill Gates has expressed his views on Plagiarism and calls it “Intellectual Property Theft”. Plagiarism is always not an intentional act, but sometimes authors commit it unintentionally as well. Therefore, there is a need for a careful and cautious move while referring to other works, so as to avoid plagiarism.
writing scholarly articles and Research Papers is generally supported and supplemented by others’ work with proper citation and references. Proper use of the references and supporting material increases the authenticity of the articles. Further, creative writing needs mastery over language and thorough knowledge about content, which is a complex task. Regardless of the complexity and difficulty involved in creative writing, a number of Ph.Ds., M.Phils., books, articles, and research papers are being published in our country every day. Theoretically, these works require good writing skills and creative ideas whereas practically only the casual approach of ‘cut and paste’ is being adopted by many scholars. This is resulting in write-ups that are unethical which in itself is plagiarism. An article or a book is an asset for the author just like money, jewelry, vehicle, and property, etc. This asset of the author is purely based on the originality of the creation. If someone wants to use the idea of another author, then one can put the idea as a reference of another and explain the idea in one’s own way to support our argument/explanation. Due to knowledge and information explosion in the form of books and Internet websites, the writers are easily copying the material in their writing. Plagiarism has become a serious issue at higher educational institutions for works involving project reports, articles, and other research papers. This use of creative work of others without acknowledging the author needs to be examined, so as to bring a remedy for improving the quality of research and writing.
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