Is this considered plagiarism? (1 Viewer)

[deathdude222]

If you write an essay in the external HSC exam, yet some sentences are similar to other essays throughout the internet and you don't change them (not implying the idea of taking peoples' essays), can you be caught for plagiarism?

I've written an essay which has some parts similar to others I've seen on the internet, but I don't know if it's even worth the time rewriting them.

 

[slyhunter]

Yes. Perhaps remote possibility?

 

[4025808]

If you write an essay in the external HSC exam, yet some sentences are similar to other essays throughout the internet and you don't change them (not implying the idea of taking peoples' essays), can you be caught for plagiarism?

I've written an essay which has some parts similar to others I've seen on the internet, but I don't know if it's even worth the time rewriting them.

If it's similar then it can't really be considered plagiarism but to be secure I suggest change it
Even then, it's so hard to determine whether someone is plagiarizing because the world is so diverse and creativity is unexpected... it may be different, may be the same. Maybe someone took another person's idea and used it, maybe another made an idea, used it and realized it was the same..

But if it's word for word then it's obviously plagiarism, unless if you asked the permission of the owner to use the essay

 

[mecramarathon]

haha i don't think the bos actually puts your essay into an online database to check if its been plagiarised

what happens is that teachers read a lot of stuff from sparknotes and other common sites to familiarise themselves


i remembered in yr 11 my teacher read out a passage from a "band 6" essay she had just marked for the hsc and a girl in my class said, "why that's from sparknotes!" and my teacher said, "ooh plagiarism, better note that down."

 

[addicts]

if it's similar but not the same , then no..
for example in english i'm sure peoples ideas etc for belonging will overlap.. but that wont be seen as plagiarising.
If what your writing is similar to other essays, it probably just means your right.. so good work.

 

[ya_mum]

what addicts said.

 

[ArtemisOrthia]

if it's similar but not the same , then no..
for example in english i'm sure peoples ideas etc for belonging will overlap.. but that wont be seen as plagiarising.
If what your writing is similar to other essays, it probably just means your right.. so good work.

This.
+ I highly doubt the Board of Studies is going to check each exam paper for each subject under a plagiarism checker. Most of the information students utilise will be the same anyway, and the only differentiation would be the arguments / subjective information put forth into answers, so markers are reading similar answers anyway. Especially, since they mark in bundles according to centre number. So, for example, you're English class studied Julius Caesar and your teacher helped with the analysis; chances are most of the centres numbers are going to be similar in techniques, meanings, purpose, etc.

That being said, I wouldn't copy an essay word for word off the internet, just in case.

 

[FTW]

If it's similar then it can't really be considered plagiarism but to be secure I suggest change it
Even then, it's so hard to determine whether someone is plagiarizing because the world is so diverse and creativity is unexpected... it may be different, may be the same. Maybe someone took another person's idea and used it, maybe another made an idea, used it and realized it was the same..

But if it's word for word then it's obviously plagiarism, unless if you asked the permission of the owner to use the essay

I agree with this.

Individual thoughts/ideas are hard to come by now, because the chance that somebody else has already had the same idea is high. Or at least that's what my teacher told me

 

[Absolutezero]

Whether it is plagiarism, and whether you'll get caught for it are entirely different concepts. If you've taken sections of another paper, and reworded or rearranged them slightly, yes, it's still plagiarism. The chances of you getting caught though is astronomically small.