Plagiarism

What's all this talk going around town about this Plagiarism stuff?

Is it the act of stealing, passing off ideas or even words that someone else created? Is it the act of using someone else's product without any accreditation to the original creator? Is it the act to actually steal as in a theft?

It's been said that plagiarism is an act of fraudulent behavior.

The U.S. Law expresses this action of stealing words and ideas as an infringement on the Copyright Laws.

Plagiarism can go hand in hand with the below as basic examples of what is considered plagiarism.

• - Handing in someone else's works and ideas as your own.
• - Simply copy and pasting someone else's ideas or words and giving no credit.
• - Incorrect use of Quotations, basically not even using quotation marks!
• - Giving wrongful information about the source of that quote.
• - Even changing up words but still having the same sentence style without giving credit.
• - Also, copy and pasting a majority of words or ideas from the creator which takes up most of your work, even if you don't credit the source.

U.S. Copyright Laws on infringement can be easily avoided by making your work Original.

Please don't plagiarize.

Prevention

There are a couple ways that plagiarism can be avoided. Citing Sources correctly is a simple was of doing this...

Citing

Just having the knowledge that some ideas or words can be "borrowed", and giving your viewers the proper information of the original source can help you prevent any form of plagiarism. Citing sources gives the proper credit out the original author.

Citing correctly gives information about the author, the actual title of the original work, name and place of the company that published your copy of the source, given the date that your copy was published, the number of pages and page numbers of the ideas or words that your borrowing.

Most individuals even think that when you cite your sources, that the content that you work will make you less reputable. That's not entirely true though. When you give out credit to the original author by citing the sources, it can your viewers contrast what you wrote with what the original author had. It will actually bring out originality within your work.