What is Plagiarism?

During my high school years, plagiarism was my best friend when it came to writing papers. i took sources from books, websites, magazines and copied it word for word on to my essays without citing my sources. its actually quite easy to do especially when copying from a website. all you have to do is highlight what you want to copy, then right click the mouse and click on copy. now go into your word document and right click the mouse again and then click paste. finished! I now have plagiarism on my essay.

plagiarizing might be easy, but I did not develope any writing skills by doing so. it did not require any creativity at all. well maybe I was a little creative when i tried to get away with it by changing a few random words. then one day, i finally got busted. turned in my research paper and when i got it back. The biggest Red F you could possibly imagine on a 8×11 piece of paper was MY reasearch paper. damn…