Indiana University at Bloomington provides information on common collegiate plagiarism issues and ways to avoid them in the link below.
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“The action or practice of taking someone else’s work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one’s own; literary theft.” (OED: http://dictionary.oed.com)
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In other words…
I plagiarize any time I take someone else’s words, ideas, or stories and pretend I came up with them.