Plagiarism

First of all,plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas and passing it off as your own. Plagiarism is very dishonest and using other people's words or ideas without citing it can be very serious. You can be expelled form your school, fired from your job or you may be facing a law suit. Even if you paraphrase, you need to cite the source or sources ans you need to also put them on your reference page. Direct quotes also needs to be cited because if it is not, it is considered plagiarism. Plagiarism can be checked and this happens then you can be in big trouble. I have never really heard of plagiarism until I started Kaplan and I am very happy that I know about it and also how to cite these sources. Citing is very importnat and should be practiced all the time even if it is verbally. Never pass someone else's ideas as you own. Always cite both in the body text and on the reference page. Sometimes you could accidently plagarise that is why you need to check your sources and writ them down so you do not forget where you got your information from, Accidentally or not, plagiarism is plagiarism.