Saturday, December 2, 2006

BL2: CUFADM02A Posting: Plagiarism and Copyright

Plagiarism and Copyright

Question 1: What is the Website Title and Website Address of the Plagiarism Tutorial completed in Week 3 of the CUFADM02A Address Copyright Online Course, in Semester 2 2006 (i.e. Week Beginning 06-November-2006)?

Answer:Website
Title:The Fraud of plagiarismWebsite
Address: http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plag.html

Question 2: Briefly describe what is meant by Plagiarism

Answer:Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of material which one has not actually created, such as when a person incorporates material from someone else's work into his own work without attributing it.

Question 3: Briefly describe how to avoid Plagiarism rephrase the idea

Answer:keep track of the sources used, and record them accuratelyrephrase the ideacrediting other peoples work

Question 4: Briefly outline the relationship between Plagiarism and Copyright

Answer:violation of copyright law. The copying of a few sentences for a quotation is fair use under copyright law, but, if not attributed to the true author, it is plagiarism. Copyright is copying something directly while plagiarism is copying something and claiming it as your own.

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law

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