Plagiarize \'pla-je-,riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] :

- To steal and pass off as one's own (the ideas or words of another)

- Use (a created production) without crediting the source:

- To commit literary theft:- present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n  

FROM: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 14th ed, (Springfield, Ma: Merriam 1965, p. 1728).

There are two different types of Plagiarism: Deliberate Plagiarism and Accidental Plagiarism.

• If you copy material from an already existing resource (a book, article, song, video, etc,)  and you don't give credit to its creator. authors, editors or compilers by correctly citing it.
• If you copy / paste from an online webpage without giving credit to the people/organization, etc., who are responsible for writing and posting the information on the webpage, by citing them correctly.
• If you copy, download or buy a paper that is not yours and use the information in it, without giving credit to the original owner by citing them.

• Not knowing when and how to cite.

• Not knowing how to properly paraphrase another author's writing.

• Confusing what is or is not considered to be "common knowledge".