Plagiarism is when a person takes information written or quoted from another person and claims it to be their own. This is bad because of the fact that it is not right for anyone to take anyone else’s hard work and claim it to be their own, because then they are discrediting the actual owner. It is bad because it is cheating someone of their intelligence. There are many consequences to plagiarism, and consequences come with bad choices. Plagiarizing is a bad choice.