Plagiarism

            Plagiarism is something WRONG that a lot of people are doing. In my essay I will discuss What is plagiarism?, Why do people do it?, How is plagiarism recognizable?, and What do I think about plagiarism?. .
             Plagiarism is "an act of stealing or using another writers ideas or words without that writers permission or giving that writer credit for those ideas or words" meaning cheating and stealing work. If you are going to use information from a resource for example a website or even a book. Make sure you cite in your paper whatever you"re using. It is very important to use quotation marks "" when copying from another source. .
             Many people plagiarize because of laziness they don't feel like doing the work so they try to find an easy way out for example copying and cheating. Other's might do it because they don't have enough time in their hands. They might have a family to support so they have to work and go to school at the same time.
             People sometimes don't realize they do it. When they are assigned a paper, people first tend to do research to get more information so they get more incite on what they are going to be writing about and also to get some help. The information is sometimes gathered from the web, newspaper articles, books, and in the dictionary. But before you know it instead of writing the information in their own words people tend to copy the work. Something that I have just noticed recently is that people are not just copying one or two paragraphs. There buying complete papers from the net. .
             How do people recognize plagiarism? All people can recognize plagiarism but .
             teachers tend to recognize it real simple. Teachers recognize plagiarism mostly on their students. Because they might have received prior work from their students so they know how their writing looks like. For example let's say the student hands in a perfect paper the teacher would obviously know. How do they spot it, is very easy they might have seen the work before especially from websites.