The Monster On Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a deadly monster that has gotten people fired, and it has ruined people’s grades, and it has ruined people’s reputation. It can be intentional or accidental. That is what makes it dangerous. According to iThenticate’s website titled ‘6 Consequences of Plagiarism,’ ‘The consequences of plagiarism can be personal, professional, ethical, and legal.’ Plagiarism is the act of taking or using someone’s words and presenting it as if it was your own words. Also, by not giving the source credit.

To begin with, plagiarism is equivalent to committing a crime because many have allegations placed against them, and there are a plethora of investigations that go behind it, and there are consequences to those actions. For example, according to Michael Heerema’s article titled ‘Fired IGN Editor is Drowning in Plagiarism Accusations, Content Removed,’ editor Filip Miucin was facing accusations of plagiarizing a game review.

A youtube gaming channel called him out on the incident by providing evidence that Miucin paraphrased their review without giving them credit by using citations or links to the original video review.

It was also reported that he tried defending himself on his youtube channel to escape the controversy that was surrounding him, but he could not. Jason Schreiber, who writes for Kotaku provides the media with details about the firing of Filip Miucin by providing screenshots of Muicin’s resume that was copied from a template. The thing about it was he had gotten away with it for a long time.

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In my opinion, after Muicin’s firing, it was difficult for him to find another job because of the controversy and the fact that it ruined his career. Plagiarism is evolving, and it is something that needs to come to a cease. According to Karen Clos Bleeker’s book titled ‘To Be Honest Championing Academic Integrity in Community Colleges,’ Donald McCabe, who is the director of the Center for Academic Integrity says that ‘plagiarism is on the rise in the nation’s colleges and universities’.

Earlier it was mentioned that plagiarism could be accidental. There was a person that I know who received a failing grade for plagiarizing. The person did not intend to do that, and it affected their grade. There was another incident that took place according to Karen Clos Bleeker’s book titled ‘To Be Honest Championing Academic Integrity In Community Colleges,’ in Piper, Kansas in 2002 when a teacher found out that the majority of her students plagiarized their papers she gave the majority of the class failing grades. The school board informed her to ease up on the punishment because of the number of complaints from parents. The teacher resigned after the incident. The reason why I think the teacher decided to leave is that the fact that the school board did not agree with her decision.

Michael Josephson, who is the founder and president of the Josephson Institute of Ethics defends the teacher by saying that ‘This kind of thing is happening every day around the country, where people with integrity are not being backed by their organization’ (Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002) (Bleeker 11). Although plagiarism is like a plague that brings many people to their demise figuratively, there are ways to prevent cheating. Giving credit to the source by saying where you got the information from by saying ‘according to’ or ‘research shows.’ Another way to prevent plagiarism is to include quotes when giving information verbatim. When more people follow these steps, there will be less intentional and accidental plagiarism.