According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online, the meaning of the word plagiarize is:
"To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use
(another's production) without crediting the source."
What is Plagiarism?
- Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.
- Plagiarism is copying from the internet, from a web page, or from another person without giving credit.
- Plagiarism is using ideas which are not your own without citing those ideas.
- Plagiarism can be applied to ideas, research, art, music, graphs, diagrams, websites, data, books, newspapers, magazines, plays, movies, photos, solution manuals, and speeches.
- Plagiarism does not apply to common knowledge.
Why is it wrong?
- It is stealing.
- It takes away from another's original work.
- Students who plagiarize hurt themselves because they do not learn the process of academic achievement.
- It undermines academic and moral values.
- Consequences can be severe and can result in expulsion from school.
