Plagiarism has been the recipient of a lot of attention in academic institutions. Especially, in the current times, it has been given a lot of attention and the consequences of committing plagiarism have become quite severe and extreme. To use someone else's work and just minutely substituting words here and there is not deemed appropriate in majority of the academic institutions.

It is a serious offense and a very grave academic crime because it not only undermines a person's intelligence, but also does an injustice to the person whose ideas were used because he/she was not acclaimed for his/her work.

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