Speech

According to the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize is:

1. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own; use (another's production) without crediting the source

2. to commit literary theft; present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

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There are four basic types of plagiarism: 

• Direct Plagiarism: Word for word usage of another's work without citation or credit. and without quotations. 
• Mosaic (Paraphrasing) Plagiarism: The act of borrowing passages from a source without using quotation marks even if the wording changed as long as the general idea stays the same.
• Self Plagiarism: Using your own work or part of a previous work without citing that it was used previously.
• Accidental Plagiarism: The unintentional paraphrasing of someone else's work, accidentally omitting a citation, or misquoting a source are all acts of accidental plagiarism. 

*Material found at Bowden University The Common Types of Plagiarism  and WriteCheck Self-Plagiarism.