Plagiarism is known as offense, a specific failure to give credit to a particular source. Plagiarism is use of other’s work , words , or ideas without attribution. The word “plagiarism” comes from the Latin word, “kidnapper” and it is also considered as a form of theft. Plagiarisms are in many forms, but it falls into three main categories. They are, first, use source’s language without quoting. Second, uses of other’s information from a source without attribution, or paraphrasing the information from the source that stays more or less same as the original.
Plagiarism includes rephrase or direct quotation, information from another person without clear acknowledgment in work as essays, examinations, oral or written reports, homework assignments, laboratory reports, computer programs, music scores, choreography, graphic depictions, and visual presentations. Plagiarism also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person. For example, turning in someone else’s work as their own work , copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credits to them , failing to put a quotation in quotation marks, giving incorrect information about the source, the words were changed but the sentence structure were the same as the original without giving credits to them , copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work.
Types of Plagiarism, anyone who has written or graded a paper knows that plagiarism is not always a