"Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional".Source In some countries, plagiarism is considered a crime and it may lead you to imprisonment whilst in the education sector plagiarizing a professional work into your projects without giving a credit to its owner shows you are cheating academically. Plagiarizing can also mean copying, cheating, stealing, extorting or even looting.
There are various ways of plagiarizing work and some of them encompass;
Copy/cut and paste a work from Internet/book without giving out its source: People are found of taking other people's work from the Internet/books without acknowledging them and it can also be term as copyrights infringement.
Quoting from someone either verbally or in written form without giving a reference: Many great people have given out nice quotes that we can easily access nowadays but when we failed to reference them, it means we are bridging the copyright infringement and it might lead to a penalty against us.
Paraphrasing others work: Modifying/making changes to peoples work without giving credits to them is also plagiarism because the work is not genuinely made by you.
Wrong citation of work: Improper citing/sourcing primary or secondary data (someone referencing other work) properly is also plagiarism because you are not given the credit to the owner.
Not acknowledging those who assist you during the work might also be plagiarism: It's very important to acknowledge those who assist you to bring out your work fully or partially.
Work that is already been published by you should be cited if you are to use it in your next write-up otherwise it's plagiarism.
These are the most important things that each and everyone us must have in his/her head when copying any material. It should be in quotes "" and source it.
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