Plagiarism: A plague to research

In the 1st century, the use of the Latin word plagiarius (literally kidnapper), to denote someone stealing someone else's work, was pioneered by Roman poet Martial, who complained that another poet had "kidnapped his verses." This use of the word was introduced into English in 1601 by dramatist Ben Jonson, to describe as a plagiary someone guilty of literary theft. Plagirism means taking the words and thoughts of others (their ideas, concepts, images, sentences) and using them as if they were own, without crediting the author or citing the source. It is possible to plagiarize unintentionally, though by being careless or hurried, omitting quotation marks or slipping into the word or ideas of other.