by smid » Thu Feb 06, 2014 5:28 pm
For your own reading pleasure: LEGAL; to submit as your own work: UNETHICAL(Plagiarism) In the free market economy, one may legally purchase books or essays for personal reading pleasure. However, if you are going to turn in the "custom essay" as your own work, it is unethical and considered as Plagiarized. The website, http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html, clearly states the code. "From the Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters: It shall be an offence for a student knowingly:(d) to represent as one's own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e. to commit plagiarism." There is much more information about "How Not to Plagiarize" on the above link. Plagiarism can lead to disciplinary hearing and often lead to academic probation or even dismissal from an academic institution or firing from a job. Most professors get a free service to detect academic cheating called "turnitin.com." Thus, cut & paste from teh Internet is one of the easiest forms of plagiarism to detect and prove. Here are some bebsites that will provide resources for enhancing your own writing skills: http://library.umd.umich.edu/research/internet/citing.html http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/valid.htm http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/ http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm http://www.cln.org/subjects/esl_cur.html "The only place where 'success' can be found before 'work' is in a dictionary."~ Not my original thought! I heard this years ago and admired the genius who ccame up with this quotation. I did not take the time to locate the original source. Nonetheless, by acknowledging that I didn't coin this sentence and attributing it to that genius, I am within my ethical and moral bounds. If I was using this quote in a formal paper, I would search the author and use "in-text" citation as well as list it in my bibliography formatted in the MLA or APA style. Sources: Life experience and my moral compass ArtLover101 71 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.