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What I know about plagiarism right now, is that you use somebody’s work, and you try to pass it off as your own. Their is also a thing called plagiarism, and that is when you use work you did in one class, and you try to turn the same thing in to another class. Sometimes plagiarism is on accident. When I was in high school, I had this big essay for my marketing class that i needed to write. One of the requirements was to have at least three citations throughout the essay. My teacher always had an English teacher look over the essays for grammatical errors and such, and when she looked at it, she had told my teacher that I plagiarized. This was a big deal, because it was for an Ivy Tech class, and if you plagiarized you would get a 0 on the paper and an F in the class. So, I was really concerned about this and looked it over and I came to the conclusion that I had just cited wrong. So, I went to the English teacher and asked her to explain to me why I had plagiarized. She also told me that I cited wrong, and she helped me cite it the correct way. I ended up not getting in trouble for plagiarism, but getting in trouble for plagiarism is on of the worst things you can do.