HotForWords – Want a free Ipad? Don’t plagiarize!

www.ouibox.com to win an iPad! Follow me on TWITTER HERE twitter.com Join me on FACEBOOK HERE www.facebook.com Let’s look at the word plagiarize. Hello my dear students.. I’m writing my new book of knowledge! I’m so excited. Show computer screen, as the words are being typed. “Words of wisdom, by Marina Orlova” To be or not to be, that is the question. Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. This book is going to be so awesome! You can’t write that… those aren’t your words! What? Those aren’t your words… the first is Shakespeare and the second phrase if John F. Kennedy! You’re plagiarizing! Plagiarizing? Yes… if you use someone else’s quotes in your work, you have to cite them. Here.. use this while writing your paper.. it will help you! Wow.. this is cool Marina adds the citation to the document. Cool! So if you use someone else’s quotes, it’s plagiarism, UNLESS you cite them then it’s fine to use them!! I’ll just use OuiWrite when I write my book from now on, just to be safe. But what exactly is plagiarism and where did that word come from? Hmm.. HotForWords must investigate the word plagiarism! To plagiarize means to steal someone else’s artistic or literary work without attributing it to that person and to pass it off as your own work. The word comes to us in the 1600s from the word plagiary which in classical Latin meant a person who is a kidnaps someone from plaga which means a net.. I guess they used nets in the old days …

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