A Plagiarism Case Study

Plagiarism occurs whenever you use someone else’s work without giving them proper acknowledgement. The whole of academic life and scholarly activity is based on the presumption that we will give credit to those who provide us with helpful ideas that we can write about, or perhaps even upon which we build ideas of our own. We rarely invent something so new or come up with an idea so revolutionary that we do not owe considerable intellectual debts to others. We must be mindful of these debts and carefully repay them. The remarkable thing is that we can do so simply by giving credit where credit is due.