{"id":485,"date":"2012-04-13T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/jonathan\/post\/Providing-attribution-when-blogging-is-an-easy-way-to-avoid-plagiarism.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T12:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T16:11:19","slug":"providing-attribution-when-blogging-is-an-easy-way-to-avoid-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/jonathan\/providing-attribution-when-blogging-is-an-easy-way-to-avoid-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing attribution when blogging is an easy way to avoid plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPlagiarism online is unfortunately a very common problem.&nbsp; Over the last few years, there have been numerous circumstances where a blog or website has done a verbatim word for word copy of blog posts written by other authors\/bloggers online.&nbsp; These are clear-cut cases where plagiarism has occurred.&nbsp; However, plagiarism doesn&rsquo;t have to be a verbatim copy of a blog post, it can simply be the reuse of ideas or solutions that are not common without attribution.&nbsp; According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/plagiarism.org\/plagiarism-101\/what-is-plagiarism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plagiarism.org website<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/plagiarize\" target=\"_blank\">Merriam Webster Online Dictionary<\/a>, plagiarizing covers any of the following:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one&#39;s own <\/li>\n<li>to use (another&#39;s production) without crediting the source <\/li>\n<li>to commit literary theft <\/li>\n<li>to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nMy undergraduate degree is in History, and during my time in school there were numerous times where someone failed to appropriately cite sources and as a result was failed from a class and either placed on academic probation, or even dismissed from the school entirely.&nbsp; As a result I make it a point to provide attribution when I blog and&nbsp;two examples of how I do this are in the opening paragraph of this blog post.&nbsp; It is really easy to cite your sources and as a blogger it is your responsibility to do so.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis applies to paraphrasing\/summarizing blog material as well, though I am not a big fan of taking another person&#39;s work and&nbsp;rewriting it so that the same concept is shown, just to keep from plagiarizing the content word for word. Earlier this week I read a blog post and left a comment with a link to a blog post I wrote that provided the correct solution to the problem.&nbsp; I even traded DM&rsquo;s with the blog author on Twitter, so the last thing I expected was that this person would rewrite the solution I provided in my post on their blog the next day without providing any form of attribution.&nbsp; A link has since been added after a number of DM&rsquo;s pointing out that this was still plagiarism.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t necessarily agree with someone reposting an entire concept without adding anything meaningful to the content, but if you are going to do this, at a bare minimum you have to provide attribution to your original source.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you are a blogger and you are unsure, provide a reference as&nbsp;it only takes a second or two to do so.&nbsp; Not citing sources doesn&rsquo;t make you appear any smarter, quite to the contrary, not citing sources and getting caught for it makes you appear dishonest.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is no valid excuse for plagiarizing content or ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plagiarism online is unfortunately a very common problem.&nbsp; Over the last few years, there have been numerous circumstances where a blog or website has done a verbatim word for word copy of blog posts written by other authors\/bloggers online.&nbsp; These are clear-cut cases where plagiarism has occurred.&nbsp; However, plagiarism doesn&rsquo;t have to be a verbatim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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