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By Sultan Aburezeza

Many of us come from different countries where it is accepted to copy and paste written work from others in the university community, but it is completely and dangerously different in the US. The U.S. universities and especially professors don’t like that international students plagiarize some facts or sayings written by others. The immediate reaction of a university to a plagiarism situation is to give the student who has plagiarized strict consequences, even at times dismissal from the university. We can obviously see how serious this issue is and also how severe is the punishment for it. In addition, as international students we should be aware of what counts as plagiarism and try to learn perfect citation skills to avoid it. We can ask our teachers at CELOP about the ways that will help us to prevent plagiarizing in our work and to avoid taking risks with our futures.