Speech of Plagiarism

Good morning everyone.

First of all, I thank God for the opportunity that given to me today. Standing right here with you great people. May God always give blessings to all of you who are willing to take the time to listen my speech.

Ladies and gentlemen, on this occasion, I want to deliver a speech about Plagiarism.
What is plagiarism? Let me tell you, plagiarism is an act of someone claiming the work of another person as a result of his own work without any notice of the use of the work to those who own the work or you can say an act of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of the author’s work as one’s own, as by not crediting the original author. This is certainly not a pattern of ethical behaviour, especially in the academic world. The form of plagiarism or plagiarism on the work of others can be in the form of claims for ideas, works or patents. It is important for libraries as institution that have the task of cementing the work of others to ensure that the disseminated work is not the work of plagiarism. This is also responsibility of the library to prevent plagiarism from occurring. In addition, it is important to do education for library users regarding acts of plagiarism. So from that we describe in general the form of plagiarism and how to prevent it.

Plagiarism is often connoted only as an ethical violation, not as an illegal act. For the legal community, acts against the law can be categorized into several types. In this context, the act against criminal law is the most relevant to be associated. For this reason, according to Undang – Undang Dasar 1945 No. 28 of 2014 concerning Copyrights has clearly regulated it. According to this, copyrights is the exclusive right of the creator that arises automatically based on the declarative principle after a work is manifested in a tangible form without reducing restrictions in accordance with the provisions of the legislation. Exclusive rights are rights reserved only for the creator or recipient of the copyright. If there are other people who wants to take advantage of the creation, this person must get permission first from the creator or recipient of the copyright.

There are 2 types of plagiarism.

1.      Online Plagiarism

2.      Auto plagiarism

Online plagiarism refers to the act of someone who claims someone’s online work becomes his own work. Often online plagiarism is done by plagiarists who are conducting online searches through the internet. The reason for the frequent occurrence of plagiarism is the easy access to unlimited digital information on the internet, which is then not matched by awareness in conducting good academic writing by searchers. The second form of plagiarism is, auto – plagiarism. Which refers to the actions of someone who claims someone’s academic statement from various papers by not quoting where the idea or statement came from. How ever, all forms of plagiarism can be said to be forms of theft, borrowing, violations, piracy and forgery.

As the good younger generations, let’s stay away from plagiarism. There are several ways to avoid plagiarism that we all know.

1.      Don’t copy. Mimicking words from any other paper or book is not good writing. Very short quotations are acceptable when contained within quotation marks and citing the source immediately following the quote. It should go without saying that copying without quotation marks and lacking appropriate citations is blatant plagiarism, but unfortunately, this does occur.

2.      Write in your own words. Write out all your own ideas without using someone else’s words or even another’s writing style to help you out. This means that you should generally avoid paraphrasing as much as possible. Paraphrasing or rewriting someone else’s text in your own words, is acceptable only if it occurs minimally in the text and the original source is cited at the end of the paraphrased passage.

3.      When in doubt, cite. If you find yourself citing excessively because of this, it could be an indication that you are not writing enough in your own words. This is a sign you should consider rewriting your paper. Common words and phrases do not need to be cited or put it into quotation marks, but any discussion of commonly understood concepts must be properly cited.

4.      Don’t recycle images, figures, tables or text from one of your own previously published papers without citing. In general, it’s better to not republish a figure that you have published before.

5.      Ask permission. If you want to use a figure, table, or any kind of data that has not been published before, and has been created or gathered by someone who is not a co – author of your paper, you absolutely must ask their permission and attribute it to them.

We can apply several ways from the above in ourselves. With this, we help reduce the existing plagiarism.

From the many words and sentences I delivered on my speech, if it’s good, then take it. And if it’s something bad, then throw it away. Thank you!