Plagiarism is defined as taking credit for another person's work without properly citing the source. The word originates from the Latin words for "kidnapping" or "kidnapper," meaning to abduct ideas. Plagiarism occurs when a person presents another's original words, ideas, or work as their own without acknowledging the true source. To avoid plagiarism, one should understand the topic well before writing, plan out what information will be incorporated from sources versus their own ideas, and avoid being influenced by reading other students' works in order to prevent copying their ideas unintentionally. Proper citation and referencing of sources is also needed to avoid plagiarism.

1. Plagiarism
BY EDUARDO M.

2. What plagiarism is ?
 Harvard website, points the idea that plagiarism is, the act of taking,
copying and using other persons work taking the credit for it without
“adequately crediting the source of the work” 1
 But when we think on the word plagiarism, do we really know what it
means?, why do we call plagiarism to the act of taking someone else
work and using as ours.
Lets see the origin of this word…
1
(Harvard. What Constitutes Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342054. Last
accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)

3. Plagiarism - Origin
 According to the Oxford Dictionary, the origin of plagiarism comes from
the latin “Plagium” and “Plagiarius”, which translated to English means
kidnapping, or kidnapper, and kidnapper, means abductor.2
So…
Plagiarism is the act of abduction of ideas.
2
(https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&
ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=plagiarism+definition)
(Oxford). Plagiarism. Available: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/plagiarism. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)

4. How to avoid plagiarism
 There are few techniques to avoid plagiarism, In this presentation I
will be using few techiniques that I found in Harvard college website
(this techniques can be found in the guide to using sources page of
the Harvard website.) 3
The techniques are…
3(Harvard. How to avoid Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342057. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)
Man standing between stolen work (2014) [image] At: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-plagiarism-image1758798 (Accessed on 3rd Oct 2014)

5. Understanding what you are doing
 Before start writing about something, we need to have a good
understanding of the subject we are trying to write about. 3
3(Harvard. How to avoid Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342057. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)

6. Plan ahead
 Once we have a good understanding of what we are writing about,
it is important to plan ahead what we will be integrating in our
context, so therefore we avoid copying ideas from other people
work. 3
3(Harvard. How to avoid Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342057. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)
Messy Office Desk with Notes about Ideas.(2014) [image] At: http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-messy-office-desk-notes-ideas-image41316605 (Accessed on 3rd
Oct 2014)

7. Avoid reading other classmates
work
 If we read a classmates work, we will be getting inspiration from it, at
the same time we will be copying his ideas and putting in our words,
but the right way to do it avoiding other people inspiration is
avoiding any type of sources that could feed and influence our
ideas. 3
3(Harvard. How to avoid Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342057. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)
Stealing ideas (2014) [image] At: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-concept-man-stealing-another-man-s-idea-image20798419
(Accessed on 3rd Oct 2014)

8. Links - references
Text Links
1(Harvard. What Constitutes Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342054. Last accessed 3rd Oct
2014.)
2(Oxford). Plagiarism. Available: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/plagiarism. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)
3(Harvard. How to avoid Plagiarism. Available: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page342057. Last accessed 3rd Oct 2014.)
Images links
(https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&es_th=1&ie=UTF-8#q=plagiarism+definition) - Origin of the Word Plagiarism
Man standing between stolen work (2014) [image] At: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photos-plagiarism-image1758798 (Accessed on 3rd
Oct 2014) – image of the slide How to avoid plagiarism
Messy Office Desk with Notes about Ideas.(2014) [image] At: http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photo-messy-office-desk-notes-ideas-image41316605
(Accessed on 3rd Oct 2014) – Image of the slide plan ahead
Stealing ideas (2014) [image] At: http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-concept-man-stealing-another-man-s-idea-image20798419(
Accessed on 3rd Oct 2014) – Image of the slide avoid reading other classmates works