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What is plagiarism? 1.
plagiarism noun
[mass noun] the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own. (From The Oxford Dictionary of English in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
What is plagiarism? 2
plagiarism noun
copying , infringement of copyright , piracy , theft , stealing ; informal cribbing . (From The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus in English Dictionaries & Thesauruses)
What is plagiarism? 3
plagiarism The process of reusing material found in any medium. The ease with which material can be CUT AND PASTE d from the WORLD WIDE WEB has led to a major increase in plagiarism with entities such as graphics, APPLETS and animations being reused. A number of ... (From A Dictionary of the Internet in Computing)
What is plagiarism? 4
Mizner, Wilson If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
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Avoiding plagiarism
In order to avoid plagiarism, you must give credit when: You use another person's ideas, opinions, or theories. You use facts, statistics, graphics, drawings, music, etc., or any other type of information that does not comprise common knowledge. You use quotations from another person's spoken or written word. You paraphrase another person's spoken or written word.
Common knowledge is information your average reader would know. How do you determine if something is common knowledge? Ask yourself if you knew the information already. If you didn't, the information is not common knowledge. Even so, common knowledge is a tricky issue because what is common knowledge for you may not be common knowledge for someone else. The best rule is when in doubt, cite!
If your source says that operating the space shuttle program is an expensive project, it would not need citation, since it is common knowledge. However, if your source uses the word wasteful instead of, or in addition to expensive, that is interpretation and would need to be cited.
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