Understanding Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Why do people plagiarize?

What are the types of plagiarism?

How to avoid plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of appropriating the ideas, writings, or inventions of another without due acknowledgement; specifically, the stealing of passages either for word or in substance, from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.

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Plagiarism is the representation of another person's work as the student's own, either by extensive unacknowledged quotation, paraphrasing or direct copying.

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Plagiarise - Take and use another person's (thoughts, writings, inventions) as one's own.

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Plagiarise - To use (another person's idea or part of their work) and pretend that it is your own.

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Plagiarise - To copy another person's words or work and pretend that they are your own.

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To use another person's ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source is to plagiarise.

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