Plagiarism is a diverse topic. People find new ways to plagiarize everyday.
The term plagiarism "is the use of others" published and unpublished ideas or words (or other intellectual property) without attribution or permission and presenting them as new and original rather than derived from an existing source".
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Plagiarism is a big issue in education. Sometimes people don’t know they are plagiarizing someone else’s work.
Incidents of students engaging in blatant or inadvertent copying of another's words have remained constant for the past 200 years, although the medium with which students plagiarize and the sociocultural expectations for academic integrity have changed (Article: paragraph 5, sentence 2).
If you recorded your original thoughts in a book or an article they are protected by copyright laws, which can’t be stolen or used without referencing back to the original. Because plagiarism is such an issue in the academic world, it is in need of reexamination, and be made clearer to students and faculty.
This article to me was just a review of my knowledge on plagiarism. I have known about plagiarism while in school and in college. It was very resourceful and gave you a lot of key notes about plagiarism. So if you have some knowledge on plagiarism and need more information on it, this article would be a good pick.
My knowledge on plagiarism will help me as an online student to accomplish my goals and complete assignments without penalty. Also, instead of using someone else’s work (without citing it), it will make you learn how to express your own thoughts and feelings and to be original. You never know, your own words may be so insightful that someone would want to cite your work. But in order to accomplish that, you need do your own work. If you must use someone else’s work for
