Plagiarism is when someone uses another's idea, opinion, or hypothesis in a means that would gain advantage to them, without giving the suitable recognition. The information can be heard, seen, elucidate, etc... It doesn't actually matter how you obtain it, if someone fabricated it earlier than you did, it's not yours. For instance, one of the most widespread forms of plagiarism encountered in our contemporary day and age is information taken from the internet copy pasted into one's work (Braumoeller, 2001). The person using the copied information would either plainly insert it into his work, or modify the structure of some ...