Say NO to Plagiarism

Hello everybody!
I have written a very small essay on plagiarism to help young Bombadilian authors to avoid falling into this trap. It’s certainly a highly concerning issue in today’s publishing world. Appropriating the ideas, expression or sentences exactly from the source material without the writer’s or publisher’s permission is synonymous to transgression of copyrights. Author’s creation is his/her intellectual as well as legal property. Significant similarity between the two writings can allege one for plagiarism. To use one’s thoughts, one can borrow them as quotation but falsely interpreting them as their own creation for ephemeral fame is seductive and ultimately demonstrate the author’s deplorable destitution in charming world of literature.

Kaavya Viswanathan, an Indian origin American teenage author, got a huge fan following after her first published book ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life’ Later, when she was found copying literary composition of famous writers in her book without their acknowledgement, she was severely criticized for being a ‘plagiarized author’, aggressively humiliated all over the world and lost the international readership. Her novel was immediately expelled as a punishment of serious offence. Her eminence was ignored in the dusty and stony ways of ruthless criticism.

Studying different authors is undeniably necessary; they are the source of creative inspiration and flowing own indigenous ideas. Guy Debord, a well known theorist and writer, has appreciably expressed his opinion, "Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

Happy writing :-)
Mousumi