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What is Plaigarism
What is Plagiarism?
"Plagiarism is another word for cheating. All work that is not of the student's original creation should contain appropriate citations; this includes citing the use of Internet sources as well . Students passing off work that is not their own will receive a grade of "0" for that work, jeopardize their selection for academic awards, honors, and scholarships, and subject themselves to disciplinary action."
Plagiarism
"Plagiarism refers to a form of cheating that has been defined as “the false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person’s mind, and presenting it as one’s own” (Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality [New York: Harper, 1952] 2). Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs.
1. Using another person’s ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work constitutes intellectual theft.
2. Passing off another person’s ideas, information, or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage constitutes fraud.
Plagiarism is sometimes a moral and ethical offense rather than a legal one since some instances of plagiarism fall outside the scope of copyright infringement, a legal offense.
" - MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition, 2003
You Have Plagiarized If
- while browsing the Web, you copied text and pasted it into your paper without quotation marks or without citing the source.
- you presented facts without saying where you found them.
- you repeated or paraphrased someone’s wording without acknowledgement.
- you took someone’s unique or particularly apt phrase without acknowledgement.
- you paraphrased someone’s argument or presented someone’s line of thought without acknowledgement.
- you bought or otherwise acquired a research paper and handed in part or all of it as your own.
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition, 2003
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