This info-graphic is a brief explanation of the ten main types of plagiarism seen in papers. It includes they ways in which students plagiarize in their papers. It is a great tool when teaching a lesson on plagiarism or a lesson on writing a paper correctly.
1. 1 T H E C L O N E
It is one of the most obvious forms of plagiarism. It is stealing
someone's work and submitting it as your own, word-for-word
without any quotations or citations.
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F I N D A N D R E P L A C E
This is when the student copies a work of another by
keeping the essential content but replaces the majority of
key words. With this form, student intent comes into
question: was this intentional or does he/she not know how
to paraphrase?
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T H E R E M I X
This is what students visualize when they think of doing
research. This is when someone gets information from
multiple sources and makes it all fit together.
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T H E R E C Y C L E
This is when a student reuses one of his/her previously
written works without including quotes of citations. This
includes papers previously written for another class.
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T H E H Y B R I D
With this form the student tries to disguise the plagiarism
as a correctly written paper. It is the combining of perfectly
cited sources with completely copied pages from a source.
WHAT IS
PLAGIARISM?
It is the act of stealing another person's work and passing
it off as your own. This includes anything from buying
prewritten papers from paper-mills to copy and pasting
just one sentence from a source without citations.
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T H E M A S H U P
This is similar to the remix. The student collects
information from multiple outside sources but uses little to
no original writing to cohesively link the information
together.
T H E A G G R E G A T O R
The student includes proper citations but the sources do
not match up with the information.
T H E R E - T W E E T
This is when a student does includes the proper citation(s)
but relies too closely on the text's original wording and/or
structure when paraphrasing.
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C T R L - C
Here, the student includes a large portion of the text from on
source by copy and pasting while adding only a few words to
disguise the deliberate act of plagiarism.
4 0 4 E R R O R
It is when the student includes citations to non-existent or
inaccurate information and sources.
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