Plagiarism and the Internet

Plagiarism refers to presenting or submitting one's work as your own without citation or credits(University of Northern British Columbia,1997,p.1) Plagirism is a very serious offence which most students are not aware off,sometimes students do it intentionally or unintentionally.Students sometimes borrow their friends' work and submit it as their own.They also copy and paste information from the website without acknowledging the source. With safe assign all this can be prevented as students can run their work through it before submitting. Safe assign helps students to know the percent of their plagiarism and they can avoid it.I prefere my assignment being run through safe assign software package to make sure that the work that I'm submitting and the ideas that i have used are acknowledged and proper citation is used in referencing.