Plagiarism

     “Writers who plagiarize… stifle further research by preventing readers from tracing ideas back to their original sources,” Plagiarism can be unintentional or simply for lack of effort on an author’s part, but there are reasons plagiarism is and should be taken seriously.

     To plagiarize is to write someone else’s written and published words as your own without proper indication that a portion of what an author has written came from an outside source. When a person plagiarizes they can spread misinformation, disrupt research, and an author can lack original thought from continuing this behavior. 

     AI answers your questions based on what it finds across the internet, and you will receive the most unanimous answer. To plagiarize is to act like a robot yourself. There is a difference between researching your topic, and taking information from an outside source. Taking information this way, especially on a topic of opinion rather than fact, is hurting authors even when they get away with it.

Work Cited

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