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Plagiarism is a form of theft.
Taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person s ideas, and using them as if they were yours, is like taking from that person a material possession, something he or she has worked for and earned. Even worse is the appropriation of someone else s ideas. By 'ideas' is meant everything from the definition or interpretation of a single word, to the overall approach or argument. Paraphrase, therefore, without proper documentation, is theft, perhaps of the worst kind. Here, a person loses not a material possession, but something of what characterized him or her as an individual.