Plagiarism

Plagiarism is taking someone else's work and using it as your own. Plagiarism is very wrong because it not only takes away credit from the original author, but it also lessens the integrity and value of your own work. Clemson has a very strong opinion about plagiarism and I believe the punishment for plagiarism is very appropriate. Plagiarism is very wrong and it does nothing but hurts the person who is copying the work. Credit needs to be given to the person who came up with the original idea, and I believe that everything should be cited that is not your original thought. It is not all that difficult to cite a source and to give credit to the original idea, so there is really no reason for plagiarism. Plagiarism is very common when people have left their work to the last minute, but you do not gain any new knowledge by simply copying someone else's work, therefore there is truly nothing good that comes from plagiarism.