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I thought this will an interesting topic to write about, as nobody else seems to have a blog about it.
However, I do not agree that there are times when taking the credit for someone else's work is acceptable. I think it is always important to reference a source you have used to help you with your own work. The typical example is academia. How can people say it is fine for a student to copy someone's work and pass it off as their own? It is simply not fair. It is also important to take into account the fact that someone who cheats will have to live with the knowledge (if they're not caught) that they were awarded something when they didn't actually achieve it themselves.
Another thing I hate, is when universities award degrees to celebrities who in my opinion do not deserve it. Why should they be awarded something just for being famous in one field when everyone else work their butts off to gain good marks and eventually (after three years of gruelling work) get a degree. How can Lenny Henry's degree in literature be justified? All he did was a series on Radio Four about Shakespeare!
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
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