Plagarism and Copyright Rules

Webster’s dictionary defines plagiarism as ‘to steal the ideas or words of one’s own: without crediting the source’. Plagiarism is also when you buy a paper off the internet, when someone else writes your paper, coping and pasting parts of papers or documents, or anything that you use that is not your own.

The best way to avoid plagiarism is by reading the document and then putting it into your own words. Another, way to make sure that you do not plagiarize is to cite anything that you use that may be someone else’s words. Citing a source makes your paper more informative and builds your credibility in your writing skills.

In order not to plagiarize you must understand plagiarism. Plagiarism usually occurs when you do not understand the meaning of plagiarism or the writer is search for an easy way out. Although, it may seem like the easy way out at the time it will end up earning the writer a zero and getting them into a lot of trouble.

Webster’s dictionary defines copyrighting as ‘the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell or distribute the matter and form of something as a literary, musical or artistic work’. Copyrighting is provided for both published and unpublished works. Documents with a copyright may only be reproduced and sold by the owner. Failure to follow a copyright law is illegal.