plagiarism

Growing up in the start of every English class and every class where there is expected to be some sort of paper/papers to be written, we are bombarded with the scared notion of “plagiarism”. When you are younger I do not think that plagiarism and stealing some ones work really goes hand in hand. Now that I am older and really have had time to sit down and think about it I compare plagiarism with me making up something first in my group of friends whether it’s a saying an idea or whatever and then having another friend in the group taking what I said and trying to make it as though they made it up themselves. I would surely be pissed and in the same context if an author was reading a paper and saw his or her work in it while being united I realize how that can hurt them as well. Because at some point they were sitting down somewhere working their ass off trying to make something to publish and then someone is going to take there knowledge for free in a split second just from copying and pasting and finagling a couple words from the author to make it seem like its their own. Plagiarism in the end is just straight up wrong and I learned from the handout on different forms of plagiarism that sometimes you may do it and not even realize it, but even then it should be fixed, cited properly and you should never say ideas are your own when they are someone else’s no matter what.