Bart Rollins
Professor
Department of Foreign Language and Literature
Chung Cheng University

What makes plagiarism bad? Please rate on a scale of one to ten, with one representing least important and ten representing most important:


1. Its effect on the original thinker, writer, artist, etc. (i.e., person plagiarized):
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2. Its effect on the plagiarizer:
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3. Its effect on the academic and/or artistic professions:
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4. Other (please specify):
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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What is the most significant nature of the damage or ill you marked as important above(e.g., if you marked 10 under “effect on the original writer, researcher, artist, etc.”you might say“ loss of actual monetary (or professional) value of his/her research , publication, or artistic production)” or “reduction of faith in academic research and/or intellectual integrity,” etc.)?

N.B. This survey has been borrowed, in modified form, from Gunnar Swanson, “What’s Wrong with Plagiarism?” (http://www.gunnarswanson.com/writingPages/Plagiarism.html).