Table of Contents
Introduction 3
What is Plagiarism 3
How to avoid Plagiarism 3
Consequences of Plagiarism 4
Personal Consequences: 4
Professional consequences: 4
Legal Consequences: 4
Financial Consequences: 4
Conclusion 5
References 6
Introduction
What is Plagiarism
Plagiarism is an act of misappropriation of words, thoughts, ideas, expressions and thoughts of others and pilfering other author’s or writer’s work to publish it as one’s own work without giving credit and clear acknowledgement to the original source or writer, intentionally or unintentionally.
Multiple sources have defined plagiarism in different ways but unfortunately there is no baseline definition or clearly defined rules to qualify any content as plagiarized. Plagiarism is perceived as serious academic dishonesty and a breach of ethical dignity of the profession. Most of the universities and academic institutions observe plagiarism as an offence against academic integrity and have very stringent rules to prevent plagiarism.
How to avoid Plagiarism
As per Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct defined by Indiana University Bloomington, plagiarism is (WTS, 2004)
• Not giving proper credit for words, thoughts, ideas, expressions and thoughts of others
• Not acknowledgingspecific contents directly taken from another person’s work
• Claiming other writer’s academic or artistic work as your own.
• Usage of any facts, figures, numbers, graphs or any other information in your work without giving references, which cannot be considered as common knowledge
• Quotation of other person’s spoken or written words without mentioning original authors name or without paraphrasing.
The above points should be considered to keep the content plagiarism free while publishing any of the scholastic or journalistic work. (Thompson, 2008)

Consequences of Plagiarism
Although plagiarism is not classifies as a serious crime, there are multifold consequences of plagiarism under different fronts some of which can be as follows (Gómez, 2013)
Personal Consequences: Person involved in plagiarism offense faces loss of credibility. Various academic institutes and universities have formulated strict rules to combat with the plagiarism evil. Depending upon the intent and severity of plagiarism, students can be punished mildly by giving warning, repeating the assignment, reducing grades, suspension, or can be as severe as dismissal from the institute or revocation of awarded degree
Professional consequences: Public image of the company or the person engaged in plagiarism may be completely destroyed. For academic professionals like professors and Journalists, it may cause a substantial down gradation of the career path. Sometimes they may be asked to leave the current position or job which makes it more difficult to find another respectable job in the industry.
Legal Consequences: Plagiarism causing IP (intellectual property) rights infringement and violation of copyright acts can be considered as serious offence and gives right to the original author to approach the court of law and can get the plagiarist punished.
Financial Consequences: Court of law can also penalize the plagiarist to compensate monetarily to the original author or owner. This is common in case of publishers or writers who write for making a living and plagiarism can cause them substantial financial losses.

Conclusion
Basic root of the plagiarism lie in the fact that most of the information is easily available today over the internet and that is assumed to be as a source of common knowledge in most cases. Hence writers often commit the mistake of not being able to differentiate between common knowledge which can be used without references with other writer’s content which needs due credit to be given to the owner before it is reused.
References
Gómez, J.I.S.a.P.V., 2013. Dishonest Behavior and Plagiarism by University Students: An Application to Management Studies. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 83(1), pp.766-70. Available at: http://www.ithenticate.com/6-consequences-of-plagiarism/ [Accessed 21 Augustus 2013].
Thompson, S., 2008. Plagiarism Prevention for Students. [Online] Available at: http://library.csusm.edu/plagiarism/whatis/ [Accessed 21 Augustus 2013].
WTS, 2004. Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It. [Online] Available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml [Accessed 21 Augustus 2013].
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