Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?

• Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote

• An act of fraud,

• Plagiarism is essentially taking an existing work and passing it off as original without crediting the source.

Is it acceptable to copy-and-paste a sentence written by someone else into your paper and simply add quotation marks around it?

• No, that is incomplete citation

• Yes, that shows it is not original text

Paraphrasing properly is to

• Change a few words to make it your own and cite it

• Put quotation marks around the text and cite it

• Summarize the text in your own words and cite it

A source doesn’t need to be cited if it’s collaboratively written on the web like Wikipedia.

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You see something on Twitter and Facebook that you really like, so you

• Copy-and-paste the post onto your own pages

• Give credit to the person you took it from

You have a friend who usually looks over your papers and together you discuss how to improve them. Is this plagiarism?

• yes, you should never accept help with the writing of your papers.

• It's fine to get help from a friend as long as your discussion is a general one, and does not involve detailed conceptual or editorial changes.

Drawing information or content from the work of another without acknowledging the source by citing a reference is considered to be plagiarism in all of the following cases except:

• Using the exact words of the author.

• ta that the author has compiled through his/her independent investigation.

• Using information from the author's work that is regarded as common knowledge in the discipline.

You should list all of your sources (from which you have incorporated ideas) in a works cited page at the end of your writing project.

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