What is Plagiarism?
According to University of Policy on Academic Integrity
Plagiarism is defined as the use of work or concepts contributed by other individuals without proper attribution or citation. Unique ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged in academic work to be graded. Examples of sources expected to be referenced include but are not limited to:
- Text, either written or spoken, quoted directly or paraphrased.
- Graphic elements.
- Passages of music, existing either as sound or as notation.
- Mathematical proofs.
- Scientific data.
According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to “plagiarize” means:
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own
- to use (another’s production) without crediting the source
- to commit literary theft
- to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
According to University of Cambridge
Plagiarism is defined as submitting as one’s own work, irrespective of intent to deceive, that which derives in part or in its entirety from the work of others without due acknowledgement. It is both poor scholarship and a breach of academic integrity.
Plagiarism can occur in respect to all types of sources and media:
- text, illustrations, musical quotations, mathematical derivations, computer code, etc;
- material downloaded from websites or drawn from manuscripts or other media;
- published and unpublished material, including lecture handouts and other students’ work.
Examples of Plagiarism
Include copying (using another person’s language and/or ideas as if they are a candidate’s own), by:
- quoting verbatim another person’s work without due acknowledgement of the source;
- paraphrasing another person’s work by changing some of the words, or the order of the words, without due acknowledgement of the source;
- using ideas taken from someone else without reference to the originator;
- cutting and pasting from the Internet to make a pastiche of online sources;
- submitting someone else’s work as part of a candidate’s own without identifying clearly who did the work. For example, buying or commissioning work via professional agencies such as ‘essay banks’ or ‘paper mills’, or not attributing research contributed by others to a joint project
Preventing Plagiarism When Writing
- Consult with your instructor
- Plan your paper
- Take effective notes
- When in doubt, cite sources
- Make it clear who said what
- Know how to paraphrase
References:
http://www.cmu.edu/policies/student-and-student-life/academic-integrity.html https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-is-plagiarism http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/plagiarism/students/statement.html http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/prevention/ https://www.cmu.edu/academic-integrity/defining/plagiarism.html https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/examples.html
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