After searched the Internet about “plagiarism”, I can recognize between this word and coping. Plagiarism is not the same as coping or borrowing. Even though they are almost the same but coping is the seriousness of the offense. And plagiarism is concerned with the unearned increment to the plagiarizing author's reputation that is achieved through false claims of authorship.
Plagiarism means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own, to use (another's production) without crediting the source, to commit literary theft, to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
On the other hand, coping is to duplicate the information or an artifact from other resources. Or it is a process to copy the documents and other visual images.
Although plagiarism and coping are almost the same, they still exist some tiny difference. It is a hard to recognize but after searching the Internet, I know much more than ever.
Agneslan(163)
We can borrow others' ideas but we cannot steal them as our own because that's an act of cheating.
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