Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism is not allowed in school because the teacher want you to do your own work and not someoe else work and they would also like to see where you stand in your level of writing. In Guyana my english class had to write a story and my story was about Jack and the beanstalk and when I finished it I showed it to one my friend and she told me if she could borrowed, she said she won't copy it becuase her dad won't let her, but she did, and had the same story as me and the teacher thought I copy form her, and there was a competition and the teacher said she needs to edit it, and so she did. I was really upset at her, not for winning the best story and entering it in the contest, but for actually lying to me and using my story and claiming it as hers.