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Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism Report (Assessment)
Definition
Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s work as your own with attribution of the source (Clarke, 2006).
The plagiarized elements
The student did not plagiarize extensively and actually, She/he had an idea of how to go around sentences without copying them word for word. She/he however, missed out on certain words and these are what contributed to the plagiarism. Using the phrase “conflict of interest” has amounted to a plagiarism report as this is a big percentage of the sentence
The rest of the errors were in the last sentence where borrowing the words warp, negative results, skimming over, drawbacks, buffing and the phrase best light made the sentence appear plagiarized.
The edited version of the sentences
First sentence
Instead of using the phrase conflict of interest, the student should have used “self-gratifying desires”
Last sentence
However, the released data may not be objective for five reasons: ending a study too soon, avoiding the presentation of dissenting results, publishing findings too early, not going into an in-depth analysis or ignoring the challenges, and sprucing up the results by presenting them in favorable contexts (Crossen, 1994, p. 167).
Reference List
Clarke, Roger (2006). “Plagiarism by academics: More complex than it seems”. Journal of the Association for Information Systems 7 (1): 91–121.
Crossen, C. (1994). Tainted: The manipulation of fact in America. New York: Touchstone, pp. 166–167.
