Doing Academic Works by Avoiding Plagiarism

Abstract

This article aimed to present the knowledge of Plagiarism. Nowadays plagiarism problems involved with many academic works both thesis and research in many higher education institutions by taking contents which one copied in the form of words, sentences, all content, images or charts including translations from the original source of the work of others, as if they were their own works without referencing of information source. Most often word-by-word plagiarism or paraphrasing makes it different from the original paper, so readers understand that the ideas are ​​all belong to the authors themselves, "Plagiarism" a sign that imitation of others is considered theft or robbery of intellectual property. It is an academic dishonesty that showed that the person lacked of aware the ethics of using the data, ideas and word of another as one’s own.