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PLAGI
ARISM
Illustrated by Mary Ann Murro
Why Plagiarism is serious
by Louise Pacardo
Answers are everywhere on the internet and doing activities has never been easier as you can just
copy-paste from the internet. We could say that the internet is free, so, all is fair, right? Not really..
This action, whether it is intentional or not, is
called Plagiarism. According to the University of
Oxford, plagiarism can be defined as introducing
materials from other sources as your own. These
materials, whether published or not, are within
Consequences of Plagiarism
Plagiarism and its consequences are greatly
displayed in a story reported by Italie H. from ABC
News (May 2022), where Jumi Bello, an author
who wrote an essay that was published in an
online magazine the “Literary Hub”, entitled “I
Plagiarized Parts of My Debut Novel. Here’s Why",
which was later pulled after people called out
similarities between Bello’s writing and other
materials. The essay included her personal
experiences and her own acts of plagiarism done
in her novel. According to Lambert H. from The
Wrap, the debut novel's release was canceled.
this definition and any act of plagiarism is
considered a disciplinary offense in academic and
professional spaces. It scopes from copying entire
essays to paraphrasing a single sentence without
any credit.
The irony within this story is very amusing. The
writer who admitted to plagiarizing in her debut
novel opted to justify it with more plagiarism. In
the essay she wrote, she was basically justifying
that paraphrasing material she had found and
giving little to no credit was fine as she had made
them "into her own". Now both the essay and the
novel was canceled.
Courtesy of Mary Ann Murro
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