Answer to Question #333641 in English for Ella

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To present the work of other authors as if it were one’s own is often considered a type of theft. Academic authors demonstrate their scholarship by writing and publishing in their fields. They have the moral right to claim such work as their own (as their “intellectual property”). Hence, the academic community requires that all academic authors, whether undergraduate, postgraduate or researcher, attribute the ownership of ideas, text and other kinds of work to the original writers. Plagiarism fits well into the legal model of theft, although the "property" stolen is not so much the plagiarized language itself as the credit due to the author. That is, plagiarists do not "steal" words, but rather they steal the rewards that belong to the public recognition of authorship, credit, prestige, and authority.