Plagiarism

   Plagiarism

According to Wikipedia. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics. It is subject to sanctions like penalties, suspension, and even expulsion. Recently, cases of 'extreme plagiarism' have been identified in academia

Plagiarism is a form of cheating that is strictly prohibited in school. Because it promotes laziness and the lack of willingness to do or finish the said work.

There are some intellectual challenges that all students are faced with when writing. Sometimes these challenges can almost seem like contradictions, particularly when addressing them within a single paper.

What is Plagiarism? In instructional settings, plagiarism is a multifaceted and ethically complex problem. However, if any definition of plagiarism is to be helpful to administrators, faculty, and students, it needs to be as simple and direct as possible within the context for which it is intended.

Learning from other peoples work is a good thing but taking the credit for the work you did not even write is bad. There are ways on  how you can avoid this. My one method is reading and analyzing the words and then paraphrasing it into a whole new sentence which still gives it the same definition. It can't be copying if what you wrote is not as exact as what you read.