Plagiarism The paper "Definition and Avoiding Plagiarism," discusses plagiarism as one of the main reasons that can cause writers, beginners as well as professionals, to fail the achieving of credibility. The first step to avoid plagiarism is to give it a clear definition, as the paper explains, plagiarism could be intentional or unintentional. A writer can fall in plagiarism when he or she adopts other's ideas, statements or knowledge and state them as if they were their own. However, when a writer, such as students, fail this criteria in writing due to a lack of appropriate tools of citing and quoting, in most cases that is not considered to be plagiarism. The paper then goes to explain some of the reasons that makes writers fall into this mistake, such as fear of failing a class, procrastination, and so on. After getting the definition as well as the causes clear in mind, the author then explains a variety of efforts and actions that should be taken by institutions and individuals to help limit from this phenomenon. In addition, the involvement of the internet in the writing process makes it easy for writers to get access to a limitless list of writing styles. It is important to us students to consider the defects of plagiarism, and consider the possibility of us as writers being victims of a plagiarism act and how bad that might affect us. We should work our way to achieve the unique writing style that gives attractiveness and credibility to our work, without the mistake of falling into