Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgment
3. What is plagiarism?
• Any time anyone uses the work of someone else and passes it off as
his or her own
• “work” in acollege setting may be (bus is not limited to):
i. Pappers and writing assignmnts
ii. Book or articles
iii. Facts or information
iv. Research, experiments, and data
v. Poetry, music and other creative works
4. What does plagiarism look like?
• Copying someone’s work
• Citing a source improperly
• Failiure to cite a source
• Creation of false sources
• Turning in another person’s work as your own
5. General types of plagiarism
oCopying
i. copying and directly pasting content from a source, or
multiple sources, onto a work
ii. using work written by someone else and passing it off as your own
oSelf-plagiarism
i. using work originally done for one class(or for publication)
and using it in another
6. Types of plagiarism
• Improper paraphrasing
i. Having an attributed idea be worded too similarly to its original
work
• Incomplete or no attribution
i. Not providing full attribution or credit to the person(s) with the
original idea or not commonly known fact
ii. Not citing a source in the body of a paper or including it in the
bibliography
7. How to avoid plagiarism?
i. Maintain a thorough bibliography or reference list of all sources
used
ii. Communicate with project colleagues or co-authors
• Discuss your interest in using the work done by the group
• Give credit for using their work
• Express concerns of plagiarism