4-Righteousness Communication Arts IV Ms. Lim BOMEDIANO, Abigail Jade B.

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Plagiarism Plagiarism by definition is stealing another persons work or ideas and presenting it as your own without crediting its rightful owner. Plagiarism is also committing literary theft. Plagiarism is an act wherein you steal someones work and you lie about it being yours. Taking information from web pages, books, songs, TV shows, etc. without proper citation or without sources at all is considered as plagiarism. According to wadsworth.cengage.com, plagiarism in Latin means to kidnap. Meaning, plagiarizing a persons work would be you stealing or kidnapping their work. According to plagiarism.org, all of the following are considered as plagiarism: turning someone elses work as your own, copying words or ideas from someone else without getting their permission or without giving them credit, failing to put quotation marks in a quotation, giving false information about the source, changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving them credit, and, copying many words or ideas from the source, making up the majority of your work. According to plagiarism.org, there are many types of plagiarism such as the copy-paste, paraphrasing from multiple sources, or your paper includes proper citations but contains almost no original content. There are many more types of plagiarism but I believe that these are the most common among students, workers, etc. There are many ways to avoid plagiarism. First, you may avoid plagiarism by simply citing your sources. Second, you should know how to paraphrase. Lastly, you should plan your paper well or consult your professor or teacher.

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