Good writing needs good research and good research needs to be reflected through good referencing. No matter how good your essay is, it will still fail if your professors are able to detect that you are committing plagiarism. Most of you may not know what grounds call for a plagiaristic act. Plagiarism is defined as the act of taking and using as one’s own the thoughts, writings, theories or inventions of another author or source. If you take any idea or passage from another writer and repr...