Plagiarism simply amounts to copying someone else's work and presenting it as one's own.

However, many students have forgotten or simply don't know the rules about copying someone else's work. These rules are basically the same in college as they were in grade school: Keep your eyes on your own paper.

If you use information from a dictionary, encyclopedia, book, website, magazine article, television, radio, movie, or another person's work that is not published, you must learn how to show where you found that information because when broken, the rules regarding plagiarism are very serious:

North Carolina Wesleyan College has a formal policy regarding plagiarism:

Read NCWC's plagiarism policy here