Thread: plagiarism in forums?

That's what I've been thinking however it isn't about how happy the person is, it's about using work that isn't their own. I so confused! Any one else have an opinion on it?

Quote: Originally Posted by Copyright Most writers, no matter how good, need and use editors to correct and polish their work, not only for grammar but for logic and flow and continuity and redundancy and anything else the editor can catch. It doesn't matter whether the editor is paid or donates his efforts. I think the same thing is true here... no one is giving away anything that they don't want used. If they felt that way, they...

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Isn't plagarism the act of copying someones work without permission? I don't think it's any different from having, for example, a parent proof read your GCSE coursework. I'd certainly be happy for anyone to use the sentences I've suggested on this forum in their work.

Plagiarism involves copying without attribution to the original source. You are welcome to quote another person's suggestion, giving credit to the source. If you use sentences that are corrected in these forums in your school work, you might wish to let your teacher know that you have used the forums as a resource to correct and improve your own work.

Quote: Originally Posted by Copyright Most writers, no matter how good, need and use editors to correct and polish their work, not only for grammar but for logic and flow and continuity and redundancy and anything else the editor can catch. It doesn't matter whether the editor is paid or donates his efforts. I think the same thing is true here... no one is giving away anything that they don't want used. If they felt that way, they...

Most writers, no matter how good, need and use editors to correct and polish their work, not only for grammar but for logic and flow and continuity and redundancy and anything else the editor can catch. It doesn't matter whether the editor is paid or donates his efforts. I think the same thing is true here... no one is giving away anything that they don't want used. If they felt that way, they wouldn't contribute. In fact, I...

Amoree, when you use resources from a let's say a more ordinary dictionary, you also use some other people's work and I'm sure you don't feel "guilty". For this very reason, I think that you should not consider that using resources from wordreference forums is plagiarism ;o)

To be clear - plagiarism is passing somebody else's work off as your own, whether you have permission to reprint it or not. If I call you and ask if I can use a section of your work in mine, but do not then provide reference to the fact that I have done so, then it might appear to a reader who subsequently found out that I was trying to make it appear that I was the original writer. Permission does not come into it.

This is interesting because I also have brought up this question in the past. Here is the thread that I started that dealt with knowing when/how/why to cite this forum. http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1316489 Maybe this will help?