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To plagiarize, according to the Webster online dictionary, is to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft. It also defines 'plagiarize' as to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own. This can simply be defined as fraud. Academic plagiarism can also be considered a crime in situations where, proper citation is not given, when a few words are changed within a sentence and a write up that contains many ideas belonging to o