Question

What do you mean by plagiarism. ?

Answer 1

Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics.

Answer 2

Plagiarism means presenting the words, phrases, ideas orworkof another, including certain facts and statistics, as if they were your own. To avoid plagiarizing, you must clearly acknowledge thesourceof any borrowed language or ideas that you present in your own work. Quotation marks, followed by documentation, should be used to indicate the exact words of others. A signal phrase identifying a source and/or parenthetical citation or a superscript number should denote the summarized or paraphrased ideas of others, depending on the particular style the paper follows.