Understanding Plagiarism Types

What is Illicit Paraphrasing?

• Material has been copied exactly from the source and has been acknowledged with an in-text citation, but quotation marks have not been used.

• Material has been paraphrased from the source without any in-text citation.

• Material has been copied exactly from the source without any in-text citation.

• A mix of word, phrases, and ideas from a source are used without indicating which of these have been borrowed and/or without properly citing the source/s.

What is Exact Copying?

• Material has been copied exactly from the source and has been acknowledged with an in-text citation, but quotation marks have not been used.

• Material has been paraphrased from the source without any in-text citation.

• Material has been copied exactly from the source without any in-text citation.

• A mix of word, phrases, and ideas from a source are used without indicating which of these have been borrowed and/or without properly citing the source/s.

What is Sham Paraphrasing?

• Material has been copied exactly from the source and has been acknowledged with an in-text citation, but quotation marks have not been used.

• Material has been paraphrased from the source without any in-text citation.

• Material has been copied exactly from the source without any in-text citation.

• A mix of word, phrases, and ideas from a source are used without indicating which of these have been borrowed and/or without properly citing the source/s.

What is No Referencing?

• There is no in-text citations nor a reference list.

• Material has been copied from another student’s work.

• The same assessment has been submitted in more than one unit.

• The assessment has been written by a third party and the student is claiming it as their own work.

What is Mosaic Plagiarism?

• Material has been copied exactly from the source and has been acknowledged with an in-text citation, but quotation marks have not been used.

• Material has been paraphrased from the source without any in-text citation.

• Material has been copied exactly from the source without any in-text citation.

• A mix of word, phrases, and ideas from a source are used without indicating which of these have been borrowed and/or without properly citing the source/s.

What is Collusion?

• There is no in-text citations nor a reference list.

• Material has been copied from another student’s work.

• The same assessment has been submitted in more than one unit.

• The assessment has been written by a third party and the student is claiming it as their own work.

What is Recycling?

• There is no in-text citations nor a reference list.

• Material has been copied from another student’s work.

• The same assessment has been submitted in more than one unit.

• The assessment has been written by a third party and the student is claiming it as their own work.

What is Contract Cheating?

• There is no in-text citations nor a reference list.

• Material has been copied from another student’s work.

• The same assessment has been submitted in more than one unit.

• The assessment has been written by a third party and the student is claiming it as their own work.