10 - Plagiarism

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. The idea remains problematic with unclear definitions and unclear rules. 

retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

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Plagiarism is really a big problem nowadays. For students, when asked to do such thing as assignment, project or research that needs the help of internet is that they don't bother anymore to read what they have sited. They tend to copy it all, without knowing what are its content. The major problem here is that they copy and pretend that it was their own words. Here goes the "plagiarism." If you are about to do such research, and this site is really helpful and has already spoken the thought that you have, chances are you're just going to copy it anyway, but, you might as well want to put your sources to prevent difficulties. 

Some prominent people have done this. Some copy other's speech without giving credits to whoever originally did that speech. We all know the saying...

"Give credit where credit is due."

In as much as you wouldn't want someone, or somebody using your own work and he/she had all these awards or honors because of claiming your ideas and thoughts, then don't do it. As what Confucius said...

"Don't do unto other what you don't want other to do unto you."