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Plagiarism

What it is and how to avoid it

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.

(From The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations in Quotations)

University of Huddersfield
Guidelines

on Plagiarism

Section 6 of the Raspberry book

The contradictions
Show

you have done your research

---But-- Write

something new and original

The contradictions
Appeal

to experts and authorities ---But---

Improve

upon, or disagree with experts and authorities

The contradictions
Improve

your English by mimicking what you hear and read ---But---

Use

your own words, your own voice

The contradictions
Give

credit where credit is due ---But---

Make

your own significant contribution

Actions that might be seen as plagiarism


Buying, stealing or borrowing a paper Using the source too closely when paraphrasing Paying someone to write your paper Building on someones ideas without citation Copying from another source without citing (on purpose or by accident)

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.

What is common knowledge?


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!

Common knowledge or interpretation?


In many sources, common knowledge facts are mixed with analysis, interpretation, and opinion. A commentary on common knowledge must be cited, e.g.

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.

Plagiarism in the news


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Student Original

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