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What is plagiarism?
 Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's
writing, conversation, song, or even idea and
passing it off as your own. This includes
information from web pages, books, songs,
television shows, email messages, interviews,
articles, artworks or any other medium. Whenever
you paraphrase, summarize, or take words,
phrases, or sentences from another person's work,
it is necessary to indicate the source of the
information within your paper using an internal
citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a
bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to
properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone
else's words or ideas with an internal citation is
 TOP REASONS WHY PLAGIARISM
OCCURS.
 The occurrences of plagiarism have been made
in several forms. This problem has been evolving
across places in the globe. The threat to
intellectual property is so rampant it has been
considered as a plague so attached to mankind.
Plagiarism is dangerous and the consequences
are unimaginable because the law protects and
respects intellectual property rights. The legal
system is very keen in bringing justice to stolen
intellectual property. However, although some
works are difficult to track, publications will
always be found and discovered in the internet.
 5 reasons seen in plagiarism
occurrences
 People do not know much about plagiarism. They often hear about it,
know it is bad, but still, they do not know what makes some people
commit the act of plagiarism. The dictionary defines plagiarism as
stealing of the ideas, words, work, or production of other people.
 People lack knowledge about proper citations. Plagiarism could be
avoided if all people who writes articles and research papers know
when and how to cite the ideas and text that they had taken from
other authors.
 People who rush to do things on the last minute are meant to do the
last thing that would make their tasks easier – plagiarize.
 People find the internet a good medium for searching and copying
related topics.
 People copying the works of other people do not believe the original
creators would catch them.
 Are there solutions?
 Yes and no. We will never prevent students from
colluding, plagiarizing and breaking the rules but we
can deter them by putting in place a range of
activities and procedures, each on its own unable to
make much difference, but in combination, able to
change the way everyone deals with the issue. The
rest of this briefing paper makes brief suggestions
as to what those actions might be. However, the
overriding need is to show more openly what we
value in academic discourse, how we support and
defend academic integrity, and how we help
students become aware of and signed up to the
same values. This is a longer term aim and in the
meantime, we need to focus on students’ day to day
behaviors – and on our own as teachers.
 Source

 http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php
 http://blog.plagiarisma.net/2011/top-reasons-why-plagiarism-occurs/
 https://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/resources/plagiarism.html