Plagiarism - presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without
their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.
(Oxford dictionary)

The process or practice of using another person’s ideas of work and pretending that it
is your own. (Cambridge dictionary

Basically, it is copying the original form of text or statement and using it in your own
convenience.(Jeddhie’s Dictionary)

The Common Types of Plagiarism

1. Direct/Verbatim Plagiarism - it is the word-for-word direct transcription of a

section of someone’s work, without the attribution and without the proper quotation
marks.
2. Self-plagiarism - It usually committed when a student submits his or her own
previous works , or mixes parts of previous works, without permission from all
professors involved.
3. Mosaic Plagiarism - occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without
using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for the author’s language while keeping to
the same general structure and meaning of the original. Sometimes called “patch
writing,” this kind of paraphrasing
4. Accidental Plagiarism - occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources, or
misquotes their sources, or unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar
words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without attribution.
5. Global Plagiarism - means passing off an entire text by someone else as your own
work.