Influence And Plagiarism
All professionals always base their reasoning on ethics, in whichever decisions they are making they always have to ensure that they are sound and in line with the societal norms. Since we are talking about influence and plagiarism here, we will first have to define what influence and plagiarism are and their roles in shaping today’s academic ethics. Influence therefore can be defined as pressure on all the decisions and actions of a person. What actually happens in the academic context is that all the students have their own unique influences that help them distinguish between copying and citing.
This definition however is not limited to only distinguishing between what is right and what is wrong because what is expected from the professionals is good decision making so managers roles are twofold namely making the right decisions and shunning all unethical tendencies within the organization (Radnor,2007) . However this task is not easy as it may sound because some employees have been notorious at violating such norms as we shall see. Therefore we need to come up with very good measures in the form of negative reinforcements to stop such tendencies.
Plagiarism
Although most people misunderstand plagiarism for coping or borrowing from works done by other people, plagiarism basically means to use the work that has been done by another person without his or her permission or failing to give the necessary credit after quoting works done by others, thus creating an impression that the articles you present is yours, is new and original where the truth is that the original ideas are not yours (Hacker, 2006).
Plagiarism is about committing fraud and avoiding the eventual consequences. The basis is that the person who invents or comes up with new original ideas is considered to be endowed with intellectual property and accessing such property without permission is crime just as accessing any other form of physical property .McCabe et al. (1999) stated that What is regarded as plagiarism ranges from unauthorized direct copy of the whole piece, through copying a larger section of a part, paraphrasing but retaining the sentence structure to “failing to mark a quote using quotation marks”(211).
Plagiarism is not of one kind. One type is where a writer fails to cite the sources he used and the other is where despite citing the sources, in this case the work remains technically plagiarized. For the case of ‘source not cited’ plagiarism, it may include cases where a writer takes 100 percent of another’s work or makes direct copies of larger proportion of another work from a single piece without minding to make even the slightest change. It may also be presented when a writer attempts to avoid it by taking original sections or phrases from other works, though from several sources for this case.
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