Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast my name is John Harris I hope you're having a good day wherever you are

listening from we're going to talk about plagiarism today that's a word if you're

in a working class profession you

probably haven't heard for a while. Maybe you have to reach back to high school and

remember when that was something you were warned about when you were going

through your high school education.

If you're in college or if you've had any graduate work,

you certainly know what it is,

and you would definitely know what plagiarism is

if you're in a writing or speaking profession.

But basically what it is is intellectual theft. You're

taking the ideas, concepts, very words of someone else and you're using them for your own

purposes without giving them attribution. So you're using them for your own purposes without giving them attribution.

So you're passing them off as if they're your own.

As if you had these thoughts, as if you came up with the paragraph that you cite as if it's your original piece of work when it's not.

And so this has been something that over years of tradition has been kind of fine tuned into categorizations of what is and what isn't plagiarism.

And if you are in academia, if you're used to grading papers, you'll know that when students

upload a paper to Moodle or Blackboard or any of these services that are now used in college and now high school for checking for arranging classes but there's software usually for checking plagiarism in those services.

It'll give you a percentage.

This paper is 5% similar to another paper.

And then you can go and you can look at them and you can determine whether or not did the student take

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