Your Name (Student ID):谢嘉楠(12110714)
Class No.4
10/6/2022
Reflection on Two Cases of Plagiarism
Recently, plagiarism is becoming a hot topic among students in college. In pursuit of
higher GPA, more and more students tend to get a satisfactory mark by plagiarism. And
even a research shows that students who do not understand university plagiarism policy and
use e-Books are more likely to plagiarize by coincidence(Amida, Ademola,2022).
According to MLA handbook for writers of research papers (1995),“To use another
person's ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source is to
plagiarize. ” Plagiarism is generally against morality,and sometimes even breaks the law.
Hence, we college students are supposed to reflect on others’ cases of plagiarism and firmly
avoid to plagiarize.
In February 2019, Zhai Tianlin, a famous actor, was questioned about the authenticity of
his doctoral degree because he did not know what CNKI was when answering questions from
netizens in the live broadcast. Before long, ministry of education attached great importance to it
and investigated his dissertation at once. Finally, he was confirmed that he had plagiarized in his
dissertation.On February 19, 2019, the Beijing Film Academy released a statement on the
progress of the investigation on Zhai’s plagiarism and other issues, and announced the revocation
of Zhai Tianlin's doctoral degree and Chen's doctoral director qualification,who is Zhai’s
doctoral supervisor. However, if he spared no efforts on his doctorate, even if he finally failed to
obtain it , he would make great progress on his performance skills. It is his performance in the
film that reflects his competence as a actor rather than a doctorate of fraud.
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Actually, there was a incident of plagiarism in my DSAA class last week. Someone did
not know that he was required to use draft paper which was provided by teacher when taking inclass quiz. And he was spotted by teacher that he was using his own draft paper.As a result, he
scored 0 in this quiz. In this case, obviously,he plagiarized just because he had not learned the
principle of plagiarism when doing a quiz. If he had known that, this incident of plagiarism
would have not happened.
In conclusion, we should keep away from plagiarism, which will result in terrible penalty
once being spotted. And an important way to avoid plagiarism is learning about the principle of
plagiarism and studying harder without thoughts like taking shortcuts.
Reference:Amida, A., Appianing, J., & Marafa, Y. A. (2022). Testing the predictors of
college students' attitudes toward plagiarism. Journal of Academic Ethics, 20(1), 85-99.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-021-09401-9
MLA handbook for writers of research papers (1995)
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