By Claire 2022 Cohort
Plagiarism is considered a serious academic offence all around the world. Especially in the field of academia, many reports that people got punished in terms of copyright in university. Even in the university website points out that students fail the assignment at best; thrown out of the university at worst. Sometimes plagiarism is hard to judge in addition to academics. For example, the music, drawing, film, and television industry…etc.
About ten years ago, Japanese comics RG Veda (CLAMP) accused a young novelist of plagiarism, but he denied it. The readers found the book has the same concept as the comic, but this case still has yet to result because it is challenging to define plagiarism as the book to the comic. A few years later, this novelist was accused by another China novelist of copying sentences from her book. This case was selected as one of China’s top ten typical intellectual property cases. People also take emphasis intellectual property issues in China.
During my college studies, plagiarism was a serious misdemeanour of my study period. I still remember my teacher telling us in class to emphasize the importance of copyright. Compared to the SFU policy, in my personal view, my school’s website also has an individual section to teach students how to use sources and avoid plagiarism. Still, it gives more details and examples about quoting, summarizing or sometimes paraphrasing. I think the website is more focused on the techniques of writing. Students can find various writing guides, such as dissertations, reports, research proposals, and general presentation slide guides. I didn’t even notice this writing guides section before, but I found more useful learning resources since I revisited the website.
Plagiarism is unacceptable in both Chinese and Canadian cultures. People must carefully record the details of each source they use, using the correct way of quoting and paraphrasing while doing research.