Personal and Professional Development Abductor

Question: Discuss about thePersonal and Professional Developmentfor Abductor. Answer: Introduction The word plagiarism is derived from the Latin word plagiarius that means abductor. Plagiarism is considered as presenting someone elses intellectual property/words. Claiming papers as own creation by anyone without providing the credit to the source or the author of the collected information. The following report contributes to the literature review of the plagiarism in the different sectors such as writing academic paper, research papers, journalism, professional writing etc. In addition to that, analysis of three plagiarism cases in which different public figures are accused in UK is also done. Definition of Plagiarism Through plagiarism, people deliberately lie about the authorship of the idea or intellectual property. The concept of plagiarism is applicable for the professional writers, students, journalists etc. The use of the synonyms to present the same idea of someone else is also considered as the act of plagiarism (Wager 2014). Even if the author borrows an idea from his/her previous works, it must be referenced in order to save the readers right to know the authenticity of the presented facts. Literature Review With the increasing development of internet that makes it easier for the people to access a lot of information available on the World Wide Web, the phenomenon of plagiarisms became severe in the students and other professionals (Hu 2015). Thus in case of the higher education and different other professions the cases of plagiarisms got increased in the recent years. Any unique creation might be appropriated. According to Wager (2014), in general the concept of plagiarism concentrates on content (also, this kind of replicating is typically the main kind that can be distinguished utilizing programming) it is critical to perceive that thoughts, pictures, innovative works (choreographies, musical lyrics), and information can be copied As example we have witnessed that the politicians are stealing the speeches of others, the authors of different books are using the ideas of another author without presenting proper citation of the original author. The plagiarism is also considered as fraudulent activity that is used by the authors, politicians and hugely by the students of different UK universities. Jane Goodall One of the famous primatologists, Jane Goodall was accused of lifting 12 sections of her book from different sites that includes Wikipedia too. The primatologist Jane has faulted a frantic work routine and her faulty method of note taking for a plagiarism debate encompassing her reissued book. Her book Seeds of Hope was first published in the year 2013 and after that some researchers found that the some of the sections are copied from other online sources without citing them properly (theguardian.com 2014). Even though the Washington post investigated the book and found the passages that were taken from other sources without proper citation it never used the word plagiarism instead it used words like Borrowed without attribution. The Washington post additionally discovered different sections of Goodall's book that were taken from websites such as Find Your Fate, Choice Organic Teas, and this Website on the historical backdrop of tobacco plants. This kind of reporting about the plagiarism cases raised some un-answered important questions like, the extensiveness of the plagiarism or the copied passages in the book, role of the publisher house and the co-author Gail Hudson. In addition to that, it is also questionable that if Jane Goodall is going to write other books for the same publisher then will there be measures to stop this kind plagiarism issues. The act of plagiarism is considered as fraudulent as, through the plagiarized material the writer or the author deceives the target audience to believe someone elses work as his/her own. E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey is the primary novel in a set of three composed by the novelist E.L. James, which shot to the highest point of the Best seller list as soon as it is released in 2011. The embarrassments encompassing the boorish books have been various, and claims of literary theft have additionally encompassed the novel because of the unusual sources selected to develop the plot of the novel. Fifty Shades of Gray began its life as a bit of Twilight fan fiction titled "Master of the Universe" that James posted on the web. The story was initially in view of two characters named Edward, and Bella, after those in the Twilight Saga (Telegraph.co.uk 2013). In spite of the fact that the fan fiction was brought down and the names of the characters changed before it was distributed, the greater part of the book continued as before, which brought up many issues about the legitimateness of distributing it. In this case, as the content published on the Fan fiction is free, but James copied the plot of the novel written by Stephanie Meyer and with the little bit of changes in the name of the characters and plot published it as her own creation. JK Rowling Another famous case of plagiarism is against the famous fictional story writer JK.Rowling. She is allegedly stole the story of Adventures of Willy and created the legendary series of Harry Potter. In the year 2009, the estate of Adrian Jacobs filed a lawsuit against the author of Harry Potter accusing her to plagiarize the story of the Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire (Telegraph.co.uk 2010). The publisher and the writer JK Rowling are sued for 500million for professedly duplicating Harry Potter from a prior youngsters book, additionally by an English author mentioned above. Adrian Jacobs book Willy the Wizard - additionally about a youngster finding he has supernatural and magical powers - was distributed in 1987, ten years before the first in the Harry Potter arrangement and three years before Miss Rowling says she concocted her thought. Even though the Rowling denies all the acquisitions from the state of Jacob but there are evidences that strengthens the acquisitions. Such as, in both the stories the central character Harry and Willy the Wizard saves their friends from the dangerous strange creatures. In addition to that, the concept of the magical maps that shows the whereabouts of an individual according to their movement in certain region (Juola 2015). Markson, the PR executive of the estate claimed that author of Harry Potter plagiarized the plot of the story of Willy the Wizard. Even though the claims are denied by JK Rowling, the similarities between the plots of both the stories makes the readers of the book suspicious as the book Willy the Wizard published much before the Harry potter series and contains the ideas related to the Jacobs book (Park 2016). Recommendations In order guarantee that the plagiarism is avoided by the authors and the university students is to educate them about citing the sources they used in their writing. In most of the cases plagiarism, its due to the lack of knowledge about citing the sources and providing attribution to those sources. The universities must allot marks for the originality in the course works so that students try to make their original papers rather than copying it from a source. Conclusion The level and the severity of plagiarism ca be used to define the fine line between cheating and unintended content copying of others creation. In most of the cases whether it is done by the students of different universities or renowned professionals and public figures are not reported as they do not have the idea about how to use a source available on internet and acknowledge them in their own creations or academic papers. Even though there are tools like Turnitin that is used for the identification of the copied text in a journal, a research paper or an article in a newspaper, it is important to spread the awareness about acknowledging the source from which some information is taken. References Juola, P., 2015. The Rowling case: a proposed standard analytic protocol for authorship questions.Digital Scholarship in the Humanities,30(suppl 1), pp.i100-i113. Scott, C. 2013.EL James, author of Fifty Shades, has a new love rival. [online] Telegraph.co.uk. Available at: Taylor, M. 2017.Jane Goodall blames 'chaotic note taking' for plagiarism controversy. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/01/jane-goodall-seeds-of-hope-plagiarism [Accessed 27 Feb. 2017]. Telegraph.co.uk. 2010.JK Rowling plagiarism claim: key passages. 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