Plagiarism is something you can say is what you used to do when you were in school during exams. In short plagiarism means using someone else's information or words or ideas, and claiming it to be yours. If you remember, I hope you do, during school and college days, while giving a test we used to knock on our neighboring friends table and ask him/her for help by showing the question number through our fingers, and he/she would show his/her answer sheet and we would copy the exact same word by word (to save time and power), as innocent little kids, the answer to our answer sheet and then score good marks (only if that answer would be correct). This act of innocence is known as plagiarism. Plagiarism has many types. They are: 1. Direct Plagiarism Direct Plagiarism is the type in which the transcription in word to word of a section or column of someone else's work without quotation marks or attribution. This sought of plagiarism is ethically dishonest and an act of illite