Plagiarism Preventive Initiatives
Today’s era is of advanced
information technology and, the availability of free information is of world
folk’s grab that’s why misuse of it in different sectors /platforms by people
has occurred. The invention of the worldwide networking system has ensured the
freedom of the incessant availability of Information Technology's accessibility
for the world’s people.
Countless servers under the
computer networking system based on the internet contain countless websites in
which information of written documents, audio and video files, and pictures of
various formats) are stored, and those are of authentic proprietors. When
those possessions are used without the authors/proprietors' permission by
others that act is plagiarism.
However, this kind of act is a
violation of computer ethics, the unfortunate fact is that this kind of
activity practice is frightful and the evidence of it is visible in almost
every sector. Although to prevent this kind of heinous act, there are advanced
technological advantages.
To take any idea and use it as own
derived from any written document on the Internet without the permission of the
main author will be considered plagiarism.
To use any image(Graphics,3D
images)from the Internet without mentioning the reference of the link of the
image will be considered plagiarism.
To take a thesis and a research
paper from the Internet not to mention the source of those papers, and their
authentic author's name will come under plagiarism.
Not to refer to the name of the
source of the data of statistics taken from the internet will go under
plagiarism. Likewise, quotes derived from the literary works not to refer to
the author's name and reference will go under plagiarism.
Besides, such types of made
software are favorable for web-browser like google chrome. Those software are
added as an extension in google chrome. Those software partially responsible
for provoking plagiarism. For example, Google Translate and Free or Paid Online
Grammar Checker. These two types software play a vital role to facilitate
plagiarism, no doubt.
On the other hand, to prevent
plagiarism, the IT Company Giant "Google'' has taken the preventive
initiative through the launch of "Free Plagiarism Checker Software and
"Free Plagiarism Grammar Checker Software''. There are many updated
versions of these two -software. Through these two software, it is easily
identified from which websites plagiarized contents are taken. And, through the
software "Free Plagiarism Grammar Checker Software'' it is easily identified
how many times grammatical mistakes have been corrected.
The first one is citation.
The second one is to mention reference of the
source.
The third one is Summarization.
The last one is Paraphrasing.
How citation process will have to complete
following those kinds of methodology.
The written texts(whether versatile subject matters
based articles, research papers, thesis papers, journals, literary works,
intellectual written papers) published in the printed media(newspaper), in the
online platform based media which will under citation process.
In this case, index-citation and the reference of
the sources of the written texts will have to maintain following
MLA/APA formats that are acknowledged as destined
rules to thwart plagiarism.
In which types of media, the written texts will
have been published and those will have been cited, in this case, MLA/APA
format will be varied. For example: If the adapted document is cited or
referred by one from either printed media or online platform based media, in
this case, MLA/APA format will be changed.
Also, there are a many options to prevent plagiarism. Summarization and
Paraphrasing are the other options to evade plagiarism, in this case,
some rules will be strictly maintained.
However, in the case of summarization of the any written document by one will concise
it in a way so that own opinion-comment-suggestion-message can never be included,
otherwise, it will go under plagiarism procedures. Only, the main information
of the adapted written text of the writer will be succinct by the summarizer.
Paraphrasing is another option to avoid plagiarism.
Whichever written texts are paraphrased, only, sentence structure,
synonymous-anonymous words will change. No other change will be acceptable in
the case of paraphrasing. The main information-message-ideas of the writer of
the written text won’t be alterable,
whereas, it will go under plagiarism process.
Last but not the least, everything has good and bad sides. Our main focus is to take good sides of everything.