METHODOLOGY FOR 2nd year

Plagiarism
With every passing day new discoveries are made and
the scope of information is increasing with prospects that it is
becoming difficult for humans to handle information efficiently thus
resulting in e-cheating and plagiarism.
Plagiarism can be defined as
the deliberate use of another persons work with reference to your name
without acknowledging the original source. This is evaluated as cheating
as one is trying to take credit for someone else's work. However taking
references from someone else's work and mentioning his/her name on each
line copied as it is, is not part of plagiarism. It is called in text
citation. Plagiarism is becoming really common these days in assessments
that students submit for their college work. This is considered as a
serious offence as attempt like this undermines the value of college
degrees. It has been until recently that the managements have decided to
impose harsh penalties on students who are found guilty of plagiarism.
Ways
to Combat Plagiarism In order to avoid plagiarism, several universities
and schools have started using anti plagiarism software's and other
electronic methods to detect plagiarism that can detect similarities and
frequencies of words and phrases. In other schools the management also
keeps track of the work previously submitted by students in order to
ensure that the work is not copied from earlier years. In order to avoid
plagiarism students are nowadays made to sign statements in which they
accept that the work they have submitted, is their own and the
contribution from other sources has been properly acknowledged. Because
that's what being in a community is all about, learning together and
cooperating such gestures make the students realize the importance of
their acts and portray that the management is vigilant about their work
and that plagiarism or e-cheating can get them into trouble.
The
central point is that when one is producing a piece of work that would
be evaluated, one must entirely cite his own work, written by him in his
own words and containing his own ideas, interpretations, approaches
etc. in case the ideas and words have been copied from someone else then
it should be stated clearly with proper reference. Precisely its easy
for a person to avoid plagiarism, all what matters is that one should
put his/her own effort into the material he submits for assignment.
Students who deceive are more likely to become white collar criminal
thus depriving the hard workers from achieving their goal.
Conclusion
Fighting plagiarism and e-cheating has become very essential in these
times especially because text from all across the globe can be viewed
through internet. People who fake someone else's work as their own must
be caught because with purloining someone's hard work they may pass in
their degrees and probably get jobs, but they will have difficulty once
they enter into their professional lives. Secondly with vigilant
software working to catch plagiarism, students with real aptitude will
come out in the light and the carefree attitude towards studies could be
warned against