10-17-2014, 12:24 PM
ANY TIME you use someone else's words or artwork (anything you did not create) as your own it is plagiarism...
However it is becoming more of an odd duck in todays world, teachers and professors often "borrow" text and graphics, as do their students..
I even had full paragraphs of a grant I co-wrote lifted & published in a masters paper by a student at the local university... when brought to light, the university stance is that the "paper has serious flaws" but they decided not to withdraw the paper...
It is not so much what we are taught, but what we model ourselves after...some chose to not acknowledge the work of others...
However it is becoming more of an odd duck in todays world, teachers and professors often "borrow" text and graphics, as do their students..
I even had full paragraphs of a grant I co-wrote lifted & published in a masters paper by a student at the local university... when brought to light, the university stance is that the "paper has serious flaws" but they decided not to withdraw the paper...
It is not so much what we are taught, but what we model ourselves after...some chose to not acknowledge the work of others...