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| What is Plagiarism and How Can I Avoid It? | ||||||||||
| Plagiarism is using somebody elses information and using as if it were your own. If you were to give a speech on what you learned in math class and you pointed out how you discovered that E=MC Squared you are obviously lying. What if you were to get credit for having invented that amazing formula. How do you think that good old albert would feel? | ||||||||||
| Some people get a lot of money off of their ideas. I'm sure that Henrey Ford would get upset if you got all the money for inventing the car. It wouldn't be fair to him because he is the one that studied and went through all of the hard times to try to get it to work. | ||||||||||
| So how is it that Chevy is able to make a car without getting in trouble for copying Mr. Ford's idea? Just because somebody else thought up something first doesn't mean that they are the only ones that can use it. | ||||||||||
| Just as Chevy is able to use Ford's information without taking credit for the invention you can use information in your speeches without claiming that you came up with the idea. For another example, this web site, I am not cabable of coming up with all of these great speech ideas. But I did study them so I feel that I should be able to accurately portray to you the best way to write a speech. So I use the information that all of the smart peope out there figured out, and I relay the info to you and build a Works Cited Page. This is a page where I can write where I got all of my information and nobody gets upset. | ||||||||||