17.) Plagiarism

                 
                    Copy here Copy there Copy everywhere. These are the things that most lazy people do when they’re making some thesis, projects or assignments. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary “plagiarize” means: to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own or ideas, to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own or use another’s production without crediting the source, and to commit literary theft. So here I will talk about why do people plagiarize, why some people loves to copy others work. The three common things why they plagiarize: Laziness, they have no time and the writing issue.

       
                        All of us “I guess” are lazy sometimes but the work that we are always being lazy at is when we’re doing our projects. Some students have projects that they don’t know and sometimes they just want to finish it immediately so the result is that students are just copying others work and I know that some students don’t know that copying (or what we called plagiarism) is bad and they can be jailed. According to Department of Justice, plagiarism itself is not a crime but that plagiarism that also amounts to copyright infringement is. Such plagiarism now carries a penalty of 3-6 years imprisonment and a fine of P50, 000 - P150, 000 ($1,200 - $3,600), if prosecuted under the law.

                           Sometimes people plagiarize because they have no time. I admit that sometimes I do this especially when the submission deadline is tomorrow, like I’m doing it in a rush hour (sometimes I’m not going to sleep just to finish the paper works). Also for “lazy people” like what I’ve said a while ago they just want to finish it immediately and they just want to have fun (going to a party rather than doing the assignments). I guess that to these people my advice is that time management only (I’m like advising myself also hahaha).

                      The writing issue, this is one of my problem also, so sometimes I copy others work on the internet. Because my grammar, lack of words and lack of imagination (like my brain is at the range of 75/100) it needs more enhancement. Most students are like this, so sometimes they are lazy they have no trust and confidence on themselves that’s why sometimes they have no choice to plagiarize.

                      Overall why just these three common things make them as a challenges to our lives and make them as an obstacle so at end, the result maybe you don’t know your works are the one who people plagiarize.