Unit 12.

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What is Plagiarism?
 What Is Plagiarism?

Presenting others’ ideas, words, images, sounds or creative

expression as your own is called Plagiarism.

The word plagiarism is derived from the Latin word plagiare,

which means to kidnap or abduct.
Plagiarism is:

• cheating
• an Academic offence
• Academic theft!
• stealing of intellectual property
 Why do students plagiarize?
Excuses! It’s okay if Excuses!
Everyone does it!
I don’t get
caught!

I was too busy to

This assignment write that paper!
was BORING! (Job, big game, too much
I’ve got to
homework!)
get
into
My
teachers University!
My parents
expect
expect
too much!
“A”s!

Source:
boe.qacps.k12.md.us/qhs/teachers/
Intentional Plagiarism

• Copying a friend’s work

• Borrowing or buying assignments
• Cut and paste from electronic resources
• Downloading essays from the Internet and presenting them as
your own work
Unintentional Plagiarism

• Not knowing how to acknowledge or incorporate sources

• Inappropriate paraphrasing, summarizing and quotation
• Careless copying, cutting and pasting from electronic sources
• Quoting excessively and without citation
• Failure to use your own “voice”