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
pla⋅gia⋅rism protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of
plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and
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quote.
"plagiarism." The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third
Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 05 Oct. 2009. <Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plagiarism>.
A serious offense in the academic world; one that can bring about disciplinary action here at TP and in
colleges and universities worldwide!
See the following courtesy of the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers University:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P05vgxDoPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96QEIDznXI4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSQH9OTOLBs
http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/plagiarism_quiz.swf