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Dealing with Plagiarism in the Commercial Environment

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numerous surveys in which plagiarisms has been found to be widespread. In a survey at Trinity Collage it was found up to 54% of students admitted to some type of  plagiarism (Hogan, 20111). The most common form of plagiarism is referred to as cloning; this is where another work is taken word for word and simply reused (Anonymous, 2012, p10).  Academic institutions have significant policies on plagiarism, but these so not always appear to work. The problem, which appears to start in academia, is not limited to this environment. If  a student gets away with plagiarism, or sees other getting away with it, or simply does not understand the concepts and implications of plagiarism, they will not leave the problem  behind at collage or university when they enter the workplace. Any form of deviant behaviour that goes uncorrected has the potential to continue. The problem that is faced  by the workplace is how to detect and eliminate plagiarism, and prevent it from occurring. Many organizations, especially those where there is the production or research and reports, need to  tackle this issue. The codes of ethics which are present in many organizations are clear. The Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists is very clear; it simply  has the requirement "do not plagiarize" (quoted New York Times, 2012). The problem is that those who plagiarize either do not understand what they are doing is plagiarizing, so  the code of ethics will not be considered as relevant, otherwise plagiarism is taking place purposefully and the code will be ignored. In 2010 New York Times reporter Zachery Kouwe  was accused of plagiarism, with investigations citing several counts of the report copying articles so that there were either identical or nearly identical to reports previously published in the Wall