Plagiarism is the act of taking someone’s the words or ideologies and stating them as your own. Plagiarism is illegal and will immediately ruin any writer’s reputation. Many students who plagiarize face tremendous consequences like course failure or even suspension. But the legal consequences can be fines of up to $50,000.
Even in high school teachers and administrators take plagiarism very seriously. One of my friends had an essay due and he was almost done, but the essay was due the next period. He decided to copy and paste 2 sentences from a website to finish it faster. He ended up getting caught and received a 0 for the entire essay. He would’ve been better off turning it in incomplete. Even worse he failed the semester because of that one 0.
Plagiarism is a very controversial topic when it comes to copying or having similar ideologies. So it’s always best to cite a source even if you used one sentence of information from it. Always be sure to properly put your citations in the right format. Also for direct quotes never forget your in-text citations which go “(Authors Last Name, Page number)”. Or one day you could face very serious consequences for it.
Nina, Paley. “Avoid Plagiarism: What Is Plagiarism?” Research Guides, 28 Jan. 2020, 12:46, researchguides.case.edu/avoid-plagiarism.
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