What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is defined as passing off someone else's work and/or ideas as your own. Copying someone's work; line by line. Paraphrase an existing passage; mixing words or quoting a passage without using the correct citation. Furthermore, in addition to intentional plagiarism, we talk about unintentional plagiarism when a person has good intentions and paraphrases a text too faithfully or forgets to accurately cite his sources. The different types of plagiarism are: Cloning: presenting the work of another, word for word; Plagiarism can take the form of a direct copy-and-paste procedure when a passage of someone else's work is copied directly, without any modification. Ctrl-C: Contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations. Some sentences and even paragraphs may be copied, with the words changed so that the copying is not obvious. Yet it is plagiarism; if no quotes were used and the original author was not mentioned. Find and Replace: Edit key words and phrases while maintaining the essential content of the source. Remix: Pa...