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In one paragraph, argue your stance to the question, "Is self plagiarism a form a cheating? Why or why not?" You can use personal examples or examples from the PDF "What is Plagiarism and Self Plagiarism" and the course information page. Finish your response by asking your peers a question that they can answer in their peer responses.
what is plagiarism?
It is described as using other author people's creation and ideas with out accurate citation.
What is self plagiarism?
It is known as a kind of plagiarism where the author resuses his own work for a future creation which is already published and read by many.
"Is self plagiarism a form a cheating? Why or why not?"
Well the answer is "no". It cannot be considered as cheating since the author reuses his own work. It's also known as recycling the fraud or duplicate publication.
Examples of self-plagiarism
-Reuse of ideas and data from your degree thesis and applying them in your master's thesis.
-copying and pasting portions or the entire paragraph from an old or recent assignment to a new one.
Example for plagiarism
-use of word-by-word borrowing from an unacknowledged content by intentionally or unknowingly.
Finish your response by asking your peers a question that they can answer in their peer responses
Example
Question can be asked to a peer
What words would you use to describe the ideal student?
An ideal student is the one who quench for the thirst of knowledge and hardworking in order to complete their work in time to display excellent academic practices.