“ Hey, what are you doing?”
“ Just browsing for some of Nicholas
Hoult pictures. Eh by the way, do you know how to save pictures from
the internet?”
“ You just need to right click on
the pictures you like and choose save as then it will be
automatically saved to your computer.”
“ Really? I never thought that it
will be easy as ABC. Now, I will get to save many of his pictures
which I want to. Thank you so much!”
Have you ever came across some pictures
that you like while surfing the internet and have the urge to save it
to your computer for later viewing as the above situations? Or have
you ever taken others article to be put in your own work without
giving the actual authors proper credits?
If you have done any of that, well you
are considered plagiarising. To be frank, I always did those things.
It is not just saving pictures or taking articles from internet that
are considered as plagiarising. Downloading songs from free website
that offers them or claim other peoples ideas as yours are also few
examples of plagiarising.
To put in simple words, it is
considered as plagiarising as long as you take others works, ideas, etc without giving them the proper credits.
Many people, including me, do not
realise that some of our actions are considered as plagiarising. For
example, saving pictures from the internet. It does not seem as we
are doing the wrong thing because many of the people also save
pictures from the internet.
Still, plagiarising is wrong. Thus, how to avoid it?
First and foremost, whenever you use somebody's works, make sure that you give the proper credits. If you are using his direct spoken words, do quotation on his words. it will be much better if you paraphrase them first but make sure that they are credited too.
There are more ways on how to avoid plagiarising if you look up for information on them. The most important thing is we must avoid plagiarism because it affect our integrity.
