I have been fortunate enough to never have someone plagiarize anything from me, at least to my knowledge. If someone were to, however, I think I would have a very hard time with it. I am very non-confrontational and so the idea of having to bring this issue up to someone make me uncomfortable. I suppose I would have to steel myself against my discomfort and confront the person face-to-face. I would do my best to involve as few people as possible, but since this is such a serious issue I would feel the need to make sure that it was resolved in such a way that would give me the proper credit for my work.
Likewise, if I were to know that a colleague had plagiarized against another, I would make sure that the proper people knew so that the person who deserved the credit received it. This would be an equally uncomfortable situation, but I don't think I would be able to handle knowing that someone was stealing from another and not do something about it.
Plagiarism can be such a touchy subject that I think I am not alone in feeling uncomfortable with the idea of confronting it. However, it is something that every professional must consider since it happens in all kinds of work to all kinds of people.
Thanks for reading!
Heidi
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ReplyDeleteIt's great that you've never had anyone plagiarize your work before. Unfortunately, I have. It was in high school. We had a big project due that I actually worked really hard on. My table partner decided to be lazy and not do it. When my teacher returned it back to me, my partner basically took it and wrote his name on it and then turned it in again, not doing anything for himself. Go figure he actually got a better grade too, for the same exact thing!