Copying And Referencing

In the given task, we were told to make a research on the following words and how the differ from one another. These words being 'copying' and 'referencing'. A description or understanding about both needed to be done and for thus, my comparisons between the two were as follows.

Copying - By my understanding, copying is more of a skill or technique that is used to 'copy' ones original information or artifact and then make it their work without knowing or going through the process of the original work. Copying itself is not 100% accurate because depending on what someone might be copying e.g, a drawing, the two copies, original and copy might not be exactly the same because the copy might have less accuracy due to not having a clear understanding of how the original drawing was made. When it comes to the modern digital style of copying, it is much easier and possible to get a 100% because one can easily just copy/cut and paste the exact same information normally off the internet and make no changes to it. So copying could be just a process of regenerating original material.

Referencing - By the word itself, i already understand that this method is a type where as the person getting the information has to refer to where the got the original information that they copied. So simply referencing is more of acknowledging the sources of ideas that you have got and applied to your own work. More like appreciating the original work and showing their credit in your own work. Mostly referencing can be made/seen in drawings, illustrations, information gained from interviews e.t.c.

So with the two being understood, we can clearly say that copying does not show any originality in your work, it is more of a replica of ones work or idea and showing that you are using it as your work whereas referencing is a more better style of working because its a sign that you used someones ideas, information and then created something of your own but still credited the original piece of work and showed appreciated by referencing where that piece of information was taken from.