Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a horrible thing that happens all the time.  I think that people who plagiarizee are not confident enough in their own abilities that they resort to plagiarizing someone elses work.  Citing your sources does not show that you do not have any of your own ideas, it just shows that you are able to take someone else's work to build onto what you are working on.  I see citing your sources as a way of saying thank you to the author of the work in which you are writing.  Their work has helped you build onto your own ideas.  Citing your sources also covers your behind when you have paraphrased ideas in which you have read.