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Plagiarism is using the ideas or words of another writer as if they were your own, without any form of acknowledgement. This is more than just another form of cheating. It is literary theft. It is stealing someone else's work.
As a student, part of your university education involves learning how to evaluate information thoughtfully in order to use it to create your own original work.
When you use information from articles, books and electronic sources for essays and reports you will be expected to pay scrupulous attention to acknowledging where your ideas come from. This means more than just documenting the relevant sources. It means acknowledging;
This is where using an appropriate referencing style comes in. As a law student you will need to use Australian Guide to Legal Citation AGLC.
