What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is stealing or copying some one's ideas and thoughts. Rephrasing words or sentences doesn't means you are not plagiarising because you are still using someone else's ideas, thoughts and their work.
Plagiarism is not allowed in school because from copying and pasting you don't learn anything. You simply steal other people's idea and show it as your work. It's not your effort therefore, teachers can't give you marks for it. Teachers want students to learn and write by themselves with their own thoughts and ideas which means you can not copy other peoples work and show as your and get marks. Plagiarism puts you behind in work because you do not understand the concept on that certain topic.
My experience in plagiarism was when I wrote my English essay by the help of online study guides from Internet which was not a good decision. I lost marks because of copying and also I did not knew what am I writing about and what certain word means. When teacher came up to me and asked me what it means I was totally clueless. It didn't help me to learn it just shut my brains off towards it because I didn't pay much attention towards it.

Feelings about Essay!

The word essay makes me scared, because it points towards losing marks. It feels really bad when you are doing great in class and all the sudden your marks are pushed down because of essay writing. Essay's bring frustration and sadness for me. All it does is surprises me; whenever I think I did better than last time it still remains the same. I find it difficult, challenging and hard. It's the most common part where i can easily lose marks.
I can easily lose marks in essay because of my grammar, content and structure. I know what I am writing about but mostly after putting it all together it becomes a bit more complicated, which makes it hard for teachers to read and understand my point. As English is not my first language therefore, I have problems with writing and grammar.
Something that I really want to work on to improve my essay is my grammar and structure. I want my grammar to be better so I do not lose much marks and i want my structure to be better so teacher can understand my point and not cut my marks for content and structure. The best way I can do it is by doing brain storm before writing essay. It really helps and it's easier to put them together and in other which can help teacher to understand better that what has happened and what was my point which i wanted to make.