Plagiarism is where you take someone else’s words or work and claim them as your own. If you do there are serious consequences on performing plagiarism, for example jail time. So if I were to copy and paste from the internet to an online essay and it was someone’s else’s work, the teacher can get you into trouble. Plagiarism is the process of using someone’s else’s work, but when doing so the person whom created the piece that you stolen and had claimed can and will sue you for it. So Plagiarism is not worth doing so for the charges that can be pressed soon you.