In this article āPlagiarism: a Lie of the Mindā, Maurice Isserman discusses the causes of plagiarism. First, he compares plagiarism to a fraud because plagiarism is the use of another person work as your own. Indeed, the author says that we can avoid plagiarism by seriously learning from other because he states that if you learn something from your mentor and you canāt explain what you learned in your own words; you do not retain anything.
In the second passageāThe Plagiaristās Taleā, Lizzie Widdicome gives some example of stealing of some books by others authors. Personally, I think that plagiarism is bad since nobody want to spend several hours of work and not at least getting credit for what he did. Therefore stealing else body work has to be avoided.
