Plagiarism, what all students are guilty of. plagiarism is defined as “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own." Let's admit it, when your professors ask you to do research papers, journals, and reflection papers, you put other people's ideas, thoughts and words. Why? Because there's internet and internet leads you to temptation in copying other works for time saving. Why put your own hard work and waste your time when you can just copy other people's work? But just because other people's work are in the internet doesn't mean you can copy it because you can be jailed and punish depending how many did you plagiarize.
There are ways on how to avoid plagiarism, If you use an author's specific word or words, you must place those words within quotation marks and you must credit the source. Even if you use your own words, if you obtained the information or ideas you are presenting from a source, you must document the source. If a piece of information isn't common knowledge, you need to provide a source. An author's ideas may include not only points made and conclusions drawn, but, for instance, a specific method or theory, the arrangement of material, or a list of steps in a process or characteristics of a medical condition. If a source provided any of these, you need to acknowledge the source.
There is a way to not cite a source when the piece of information is a common knowledge General common knowledge is factual information considered to be in the public domain, such as birth and death dates of well-known figures, and generally accepted dates of military, political, literary, and other historical events. In general, factual information contained in multiple standard reference works can usually be considered to be in the public domain.Field-specific common knowledge is "common" only within a particular field or specialty. It may include facts, theories, or methods that are familiar to readers within that discipline. For instance, you may not need to cite a reference to Piaget's developmental stages in a paper for an education class or give a source for your description of a commonly used method in a biology report—but you must be sure that this information is so widely known within that field that it will be shared by your readers.
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