If anyone reading this has done any form of study before (should be most of you then), no doubt you will have been told how serious plagiarism is. One should not copy another’s work and attempt to pass it off as one’s own. The consequences of doing so can end up having you failing an assignment, or worse still, kicked off the course entirely. The thing with cheating is, somehow, someway, you stand a very high chance of being found out. So it’s best not to do it.
When I started this blog, I had a look around the internet to see if there were any other bloggers doing a similar thing to me. Last weekend, I found psychdblog.wordpress.com by a guy from Liverpool who has spent this year doing the DD101 course. It’s a good read and a nice insight into the course, and OU life.
Yesterday, I came across another blog theintermittentstudent.blogspot.co.uk by an indeterminate someone who is much further into his OU career. He also did DD101 back in 2011. This blog is also a very nice insight and I spent a good couple of hours pouring through all the posts. But then I noticed something odd. This blog just seemed all too familiar in some way. And then a lightbulb turned on inside my head.
I went back to the first blog and did a comparison. The guy from Liverpool has on some (but not all) posts lifted thoughts and opinions (in 2014) directly from the second blog (written in 2011) and passed them off as his own.
I have no idea why Liverpool man would want to do that in a blog. It achieves nothing, especially as the posts are merely a personal evaluation of that particular week’s course content.
Have a look and see for yourself. Compare this entry with this entry.
It’s all very odd if you ask me, but it does illustrate my original point in this post- if you plagiarise, someone somewhere will find out. So don’t do it.
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