Essay On Plagiarism

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A seriously addressed and dealt with critical issue that has been developed in the United States and all over the world is plagiarism. Plagiarism is someone stealing someone else's words and pretending they were originally theirs. One example of plagiarism is someone reading a speech that someone else told before, like if it is their own speech. People notice most plagiarism being used in student’s essays or research papers, they get lazy, or they don't know what to say, so they try to copy off of someone else's work. Plagiarism is used by many people and there should be a serious consequence to the use of it.
Many people plagiarize, some are on accident and some are intentionally. Another example of plagiarism is a student given an assignment to write a report, then they go online and look for an already written report and turn that in as their own work. The student copies the report from an unknown website to their documents two days before the due date, then changes the author's name to his or her name to make it seem like they did the work on their own …show more content…

They can also try to paraphrase words other than write it as it is and cite what was paraphrased. Another way is for people to remember what is theirs and what is not. When someone is paraphrasing a text, then they are taking another's words and putting it into their own, and at the end if they add the last name of the person in parentheses, then it is not considered plagiarism, and so that way one can still get ideas off of another, and not have to deal with any consequences, “the best way to avoid stealing text is to create your own by paraphrasing” (Parks). There is a much better chance of safety when one plagiarizes rather than copying all without citing,“I cannot overstate the importance of paraphrasing,” (Acacia park). Paraphrasing keeps one out of the Troubles of