"Plagiarism: the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work".(1)
"Literary theft. Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect weiters' word as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote".(2)
As the definition says, plaragiarism must be handled with kid gloves! In an assignment, you can neither use a bit from this article read from this book nor steal another little paragraph from another one and later paste everything together! However, using a correct way to reference your source is helpful both for you - which may prove you done good research - than for your reader, who sees you have done a great job!
You can draw on by a lecture: you should firstly understand the meaning of the staff you are reading and later write back with your own words.
The University strives against every form of plagiarism; it is considered as a very serious offence! Plagiarizing others' work make you sure you will not as good as you want, your final mark could be even zero!
I have found that website from Metranet which is very very useful to understand properly over all the plagiarism field.
(1) plagiarism. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism (accessed: December 03, 2008).
(2) plagiarism. (n.d.). The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Retrieved December 03, 2008, from Dictionary.com :
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism
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