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Understanding Plagiarism

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Understanding Plagiarism

Introduction

Some common examples of plagiarism are:

• copying someone else's words without using quotation marks and citing (giving credit to) the source,
• paraphrasing or summarizing someone else's words without citing the source,
• quoting someone else's words inaccurately,
• restating someone else's original or specialized ideas without citing the source,
• misrepresenting someone else's words or ideas,
• citing the wrong source, and
• pretending someone else's work is your own.

Note: Text isn't the only thing that can be plagiarized. You also must credit the sources of images, graphics, charts, drawings, video, music, etc.

Consider: Which of the above examples of plagiarism do you think is the most common? Why?