Plagiarism, quite simply, is not giving credit where credit is due. The most serious examples are putting your name on a paper written by someone else or using ideas or facts from a book or magazine article in an assignment or presentation and not citing the source. Sharing term papers via e-mail and using facts from an Internet website in a speech and passing them off as you own are instances of using the network for plagiarism. A chain letter is a message requesting the person who receives the message to forwarded it to all the recipients plus 5,10, or 20 friends. The message frequently promises good luck in the form of money and sometimes requests money be sent in return.
Many chain letters are scams.
They are against U.S. laws. Most importantly, they can crash a mail server with vast amounts of unnecessary e-mail. Many of the library's journals are electronic, accessible by computer, with the full text of the articles online. In most instances besides the educational use, it is illegal to post a copyrighted article where others can use it or to e-mail it to others. It is also illegal to take something copyrighted that is posted on the Internet, such as an article or an image, and send it to others.