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I remembered one professor ever told me that a successful thesis blends hundreds of papers and your own ideas together. Of course, the prerequisite is proper cited works. During a team project, the plagiarism could happen on our teammates. One way to find out if our teammates plagiarize other people’s work or not is to use plagiarism inspection software such as SafeAssign. The program would automatically compare our works with the Internet, academic articles and global reference database. Through the estimated matching percentage and sources, it is not difficult to tell which part of our works is plagiarism. However, it is much better if we could prevent the plagiarism before we turn in our project.

The pre-education of plagiarism would help team members to respect the importance of the copyright and the literary property. The team leader must caution members to aware the strict rules because the plagiarism usually happens when people overlook such a serious offence. Also, like what we learned from the class, it is safe to quote and cite all the possible outside works so as to prevent the unintentional plagiarism. All the works from team members should be asked to give detailed reference. Besides, members have to check each other’s work before turning in the project. The unintentional plagiarism sometimes could be easily found by bystanders. When someone in the group plagiarizes other people’s works, a piece of advice would be the best choice if the plagiarism is unintentional. I believe that most people would take the advice if they unintentionally plagiarize material. For someone who tries to plagiarize material intentionally, it is better to let the group leader knows and admonish him or her the serious consequence for the plagiarism.

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