Plagiarism

What is it?
Plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward. It is related to:
. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
. to use (another's production) without crediting the source
. to commit literary theft
. to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
[Plagiarism.org]

About it, let me post a controversial idea:
When a student copies other persons ‘work and assumes it as being his own, the teachers do have some fault in it.

I think that when teachers presents assignment proposals that make possible for students to go online and found a paper that answer perfectly to it, it is part of teachers fault that his student makes plagiarism.
I see as part of today’s teachers work to:
. create activities than do not promote plagiarism (How do we expect when we say to students: For today’s homework go online and explain the reasons behind Civil War!”
If we look and Blooms’ taxonomy we found that types of activities that relate to higher order levels skills (as analyze, classify, connect, explain, infer, combine, integrate, plan, create, design or formulate) do contribute to prevent plagiarism.
. clarify the concept of Copy rights, Plagiarism and intellectual property and justify why it can’t be accepted and what are its effects on author
. clearly identify the consequences defined in the law to plagiarism behavior and what will you do if you find it in your classroom
. show some (not all) of the strategies and systems that can be used to detect fraud.

The only way to find plagiarism is to prevent it!