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Hopefully ORIGINAL!!!

Write original, Blogging, How to blog? Do not copy!

I am sure we all have done it several times intentionally or unintentionally. It starts from the very junior school; we cram the poems, mug up the notebook answers, and copy the essay from our friends. In the exams,a slight variance of words and the teacher penalized you for not reproducing it exactly as in the notebook. Cramming power was always a boon for the toppers. Spoon feeding was at its supreme.The best you could copy from the ready made answers, the more marks you ended up with. ๐Ÿ™‚

I remember being scolded by my dad when he noticed me learning the answers by heart, but since I dint wish to compromise with my full marks, I never took it seriously. But then this has done me no good, neither the others like me. So often we fail to think or write on our own.ย  ๐Ÿ™ The essence of originality hangs in oblivion. I feel writing skills have never been encouraged wholeheartedly in the education system. Hence we just COPY or putting in other words we get influenced so deeply that we just lap it up all in all.

I believe colleges are no better. Tutorial classes or the assignments have always been copied from top to bottom with the inappropriately placed commas and full stops. It saved so much time then but in the long run costs me so much time whenever I am asked to formulate new answers to an existing question. And not to forget the projects, they were many who purchased from outside with an utmost ownership about it. This speaks of lack of creativity and obviously new ideas.

ย 4 years in the editorial board and I always had a brush up with copied articles for the college magazine. The sources were never mentioned and there were more than one claiming for its copyright. ๐Ÿ˜‰ I am sure we have never taken the bibliography or the reference section as importantly as itโ€™s worth it. And now students are doing it with essays for seeking admissions in the schools. This one comes in the bad taste- โ€˜Indian students fail plagiarism test in US varsitiesโ€™

I wish to mention about academic honesty– word acquired lately from a newspaper article. It actually means to maintain originality in all our works in institutions of knowledge. The ideas expressed in any form should solely be ours though it may not comprise of knotty jargons but should be fair and honest. It makes us ethical in conduct. When we copy, we are just being lazy and laziness is just a hindrance to free and truthful expression. Thereโ€™s no shortcut to originality. Itโ€™s the easiest way in itself. Oneย  doesn’t need to take the pains of copying.

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Forget about students even Directors, authors, fashion designers, music composers etc. are under the cloud of plagiarism. In the cyberspace age, thereโ€™s no dearth of information, it becomes really difficult to draw the bar between getting influenced and copying. Except the actual facts, I believe if you like something irresistibly worth copying, just produce it in your words. I am sure everyone has their own set of thoughts and vocabulary and at the end, make sure you mention the source- it absolutely serves the purpose and saves you from hassles of plagiarism. After all, we learn from reading, writing and sharing but the originators should get the justified credit for their work.ย  ๐Ÿ™‚

12 thoughts on “Hopefully ORIGINAL!!!

  1. Very true…..our education system forces us to limit our creativity…d mindset of d teachers is such tht if u try something new or try to reach to d answer by a diff. formula,it is unlikely to be praised.So for fetching marks,jus go by d words of d teacher.I wish i could hav realized this b4 my board exams n college exams…..

  2. nice blog ….i luv dis because i am bade wali copy cat in school tym and even in college tym also ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜› .

  3. @YEah sources must always be mentioned..not only to satisfy your conscience bu also to avoid landing up i trouble via the copyright rules and laws..They are quite stringent now

  4. @Rupali Ahuja
    I was pulled out of the habit of cramming by my dad, and thanks to him I have a flow of thoughts of my own.
    But i must confess copying assignments was always fun. ๐Ÿ˜‰

  5. but i stl cudnt find the source of the images u hv taken…..jst kidding…..i totaly agrre wid u and infact the mgmt colleges r thz days promoting students to write on their own or mntn the source specifically or else they dont pass u….

  6. Impressive post dear…. Bt i proudly say i wasnt a copy cat ๐Ÿ™‚
    On other side….
    That’s why i nvr gt chance to be listed in toppers ๐Ÿ™

    But all i can say my habit of not being a copy cat was appreciated in MBA….
    Keep sharing such wonderful posts

  7. @manik
    The sources are all linked from where i picked them up from. ๐Ÿ˜‰
    I am sure after this incident of failing in plagiarism test, colleges will get more strict.

  8. truly agree with u manjulika.
    my experience says that i was never a copy cat in school n thats y i was among the toppers but in college i was caught by this disease ‘plagiarism’ n then i lost my topper’s position.
    so i can say that may be our education/marking system has ruin our originality but maintaining originality will definitely pay off throughout one’s life & is alwaz appreciated.
    one example is our great blog writer Manjulika.

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