Yet, the ramifications of plagiarism are much worse than an angry librarian for your public image and bottom line. It is easier than ever to copy and paste someoneРІР‚в„ўs work and call it your own, easier than stealing a book from the library. Regardless of the legal and public image consequences, stealing someone elseРІР‚в„ўs work is wrong. This can get extremely costly for any business big or small. Beyond the public image of the company, the legal consequences as written above, although not criminal, can result in РІР‚Сљmonetary repercussions,РІР‚Сњ where the plagiarizer can be fined for the amount due to the original author (6 Consequences of Plagiarism 2016). As a whole, a business caught plagiarizing will have a very difficult time keeping good relationships with customers and other businesses that now view the business as an untrustworthy organization. Businesses need to trust their employees who they hire to use their ideas to work and without trust, employers have a very hard time moving forward with employees.

For individuals, finding a job after an offense such as plagiarism could become nearly impossible. Specifically, in business, a person or entire business can lose credibility, if not all of their credibility.

Regardless of your level of exposure, being caught will have a very negative effect on a reputation. If the original idea is documented, then it will most likely be protected under Copyright Law. This does not mean that you must protect all of your work under a copyright or trademark. Authors are protected under Intellectual Property Rights. Just like stealing something from a store, plagiarism is illegal. There must be a source for the quote, or an uncited quotation is plagiarism. Putting quote marks around a sentence from a source is not enough to not plagiarize. Similarly, uncited paraphrasing, can be adequately paraphrased, but without citing the ideas is attempting to take credit for something that is not your original idea, even if itРІР‚в„ўs original wording.

Even if it is cited, this is still plagiarism. Inadequate paraphrasing is when you attempt to recreate a sourceРІР‚в„ўs words and put them into your own words, but the result is still too closely related to the original work. Mosaic plagiarism is РІР‚Сљcopy bits and pieces from a source (or several sources), changing a few words here and there withoutРІР‚В¦adequately paraphrasing or quoting directing,РІР‚Сњ (Harvard Guide to Using Sources 2016). First, verbatim is self-explanatory, copying words from a source word for word and not siting the source of those words, consequently giving yourself credit for something you did not think up. All of these go beyond academic writing and can be applied to verbal plagiarism. Officially there are five types of plagiarism: verbatim, mosaic, inadequate paraphrase, uncited paraphrase, and uncited quotations.

Ithenticate mosaic plagiarism