Menu 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Plagiarism There are a variety of things you may not know about plagiarism! 75 Wednesday 11 July 2018 Jonathan Bailey, Editor, Plagiarism Today Did you know that the rst time the word “plagiarism” was used in its modern...
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Menu 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Plagiarism There are a variety of things you may not know about plagiarism! 75 Wednesday 11 July 2018 Jonathan Bailey, Editor, Plagiarism Today Did you know that the rst time the word “plagiarism” was used in its modern sense was roughly 80 AD? It became a part of our regular English vernacular over 400 years ago and has been in the dictionary for nearly two and a half centuries. And while plagiarism is an important topic of conversation recently in schools, politics, the news and beyond, there are still many things that people may not know about it. Here are a few interesting facts that will help you to better understand the wide world of plagiarism. 1: Old Cases of Plagiarism Are Constantly Being Discovered In 2015, NPR discovered plagiarism in some of its articles dating back to 2011. In 2017, famed war photographer Eduardo Martins was revealed to be a fraud after it was discovered that his images were plagiarized. This was after operating for sev
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