Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a way of stealing or trying to pass off someone else’s work as your own, without their permission.
Examples of Plagiarism:
Talking someone else’s work and pretending that you had produced it yourself.
Taking words or ideas from someone else and taking all the credit.
If you have taken a quotation from someone else and not putting it in quotation marks.
Changing words from a sentence but keeping the other original sentence structure.
There are ways of preventing plagiarism, as long as you provide your audience with the information necessary, for example sites your have used to gather information. When using information from the internet it is recommended that you contact the person who originally produced the work and get permission from them to use it.
Why do students Plagiarise?
Students tend to plagiarise when dead-lines come up and they haven’t done the work. Also if they are confused and don’t know what they have to do they find it easier to use others work and create and understanding from it themselves.