Plagiarism

想起那些年, 我都是在嬉戲玩樂中渡過. (對. 菇真是一個少一點玩樂都不行的菇. :p)
書本, 知識, 理論, 情人通通都沒帶到現在.
唯獨這個字, 這個上學第一天就要學懂的字, 一直深深前刻在我腦中.
是對自己的警惕; 對朋友的提醒; 對學生的教導.
有見種種, 菇忽然好想跟大家分享一下.
可以的話, 請不要嫌多字, 細讀一下, 尤其尾段.
喜歡, 應該由尊重開始.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as the unacknowledged use, as one's own, of work of another person, whether or not such work has been published.

Put it simply, plagiarism is copying the work of another person without proper acknowledgement. There are two parts in the definition: copying and the absence of proper acknowledgement. As a result, it gives an impression to an ordinary reader that the work is the original work of the author when in fact it was copied from some others' work. The idea underlying plagiarism is very simple: if you appropriate the work of another person, you should give proper recognition to that person.

Copying does not necessarily mean copying word for word. Closely paraphrasing or substantial copying with minor modifications (such as changing grammar, adding a few words or reversing active/passive voices) is still copying for this purpose. It is not so much the form of the copying that is important, but the substance of what is copied. It does not matter what the nature of the source is. It may be a book, an article, a dissertation, a Government report, a table from the internet, a memorandum, or simply an assignment of another student or even teaching material distributed to you. The source may also be graphics, computer programmes, photographs, video and audio recordings or other non-textual material. It does not matter whether the source has been published or not.