Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as you own. This includes information from web pages, books, songs, television shows, email messages, interviews, articles, artworks or any other medium. Whenever your paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person's work, it is necessary to indicate the source of information within your paper using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else's words or ideas with an internal citation in plagiarism.
RE: ( www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php ).

Well plagiarism is actually a criminal act these days. Many of us are not aware in this law and here in the Philippines we have a copyright law which is enshrined in the intellectual property code of the Philippines, officially known as Republic Act No. 8293.

People could'nt avoid to plagiarize specially if you are a student. We all know that everything we need is already in the internet, every information you need is only needed a click and then everything will pop up completely. Students nowadays are very different before, I still remember the time when I was in high school, computer and internet that time is not yet popular.We only rely on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other informative books. there is no chance for us to plagiarize any ideas because we are working out things by our own, we are doing our projects and assignments with the help of ourselves. 

People can avoid plagiarism by having an originality on their works, by expressing their own thoughts and ideas. It is not bad to get an idea with someone but its really such a good feeling if you make something that came from yourself.