By: Dr.Makni

Dr.Makni — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 08:47:53 +0000

I agree to great extent with the comments above. Plagiarism is rampant indeed but it has been blown out of proportion. Gradually, plagiarism is becoming a deadly net to mock any one. Such fear to escape the label has forced the writer to be jittery. I went through an article in peer reviewed journal, who put an author name almost in every sentence to add up at the end notes a long list to evade the charge of plagiarism. But then my question to that essay writer was, where are your ideas if the one you put in essay are of others. Yes, I do not blame him. Reproducing, ditto, others words is certainly a plagiarism but the recent activist who are out to hunt down plagiarists are too trigger happy. I do not remember, some lines I wrote above, I may have read somewhere but the modern ‘alerts’ if require me to quote the source is erroneous. Certainly persons gain knowledge from others but the process is slow and over extended time. Thus, pipe down the alert antennas unless the substance is reproduce and ignore minor similarity of thoughts even if some one else expressed first. Do look for, what is his/her part, original and exclusive.

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