Compose a 200-250 word message to your audience of college students briefly teaching them about plagiarism, its consequences, and its impact on a writer's authority

Compose a 200-250 word message to your audience of college students briefly teaching them about plagiarism, its consequences, and its impact on a writer's authority. Your educational message should inspire them to build their own ethos by demonstrating your ethos in the way you composed the message to them.

Do not use a dictionary as a source. Use sources from the library database to enhance the rhetor's points.