"Plagiarism is intellectual theft"

Plagiarism has been around ever since the introduction of artwork and the written language and has become a lot more common with the evolution of the internet. Plagiarism is seen as taking someone else’s material or information from an alternative source and presenting the information as your own original work without correctly citing the place of origin and crediting the original owner. If you do not reference and credit the owner it is seen as a serious offence and is seen as stealing, which the quote from Breach in 2009, “plagiarism is intellectual theft” sums up perfectly.

There is many different ways of plagiarism and these include the copying of books, websites, photos, videos, essays and even speeches. You will be seen as plagiarising if you take any information/visuals and do nothing to change them, unacknowledge the author and attempt to pass it on as your own original work, then you will be seen as a plagiarist weather you mean it or not. The most common form of plagiarism is when someone takes a passage of text from a book or website and puts it within their work.

There is a way to prevent your work from being plagiarism when you want to use information from an alternative source which is called referencing. To prevent your work from being described as intellectual theft you have to acknowledge such sources and make it clear, this can be achieved by following a reference system such as Harvard referencing, by using this you will display where you received the information from and you will not be seen as stealing intellectual information and your work will be legal and creditable. 

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