Week 4

If someone used something that I created without giving me credit, I would be mad. When you put time and effort into creating a document/project it has artistic, academic, and legal value. Therefore, you want credit for your accomplishment. Unfortunately; in workplace environments; often credit is not given to the creator of the document/project. When two or more people work on a document, you can sometimes have one person that will just take all the credit for themselves - a.k.a. “credit hogs.” I think this happens a lot, I hate “credit hogs.” Because, you work just as hard, if not harder as the other person(s) on the document/project with another individual, and they take all the credit for it like you did nothing at all. This is where you just have to step in and let everyone know you are in charge, and that you did help create this document/project and you should be receiving credit as well.

However, in the academic world I would take the issue up first with the person that did this, and set them straight letting them know what they did is considered plagiarism. Then I would go to my teacher or whoever I needed to fix the problem and put my name on my creation. If this does not fix the problem I would sue the person who intentionally plagiarized my work! In the academic world there is no reason for plagiarism, from day one as students, we are taught to cite our sources.