AVOIDING

PL AGIARISM
PLAGIARISM
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 Passing of someone else’s work as your own, whether

done deliberately or not.
Not acknowledging when using information (i.e. data,
tables, figures or graphics) from other writers.
Inadequately paraphrasing a source.
THE ACT OF PRESENTING ANOTHER’S WORK OR
IDEAS AS YOUR OWN
WHAT DOES PLAGIARISM LOOK LIKE?
Copying someone’s work
Citing a source improperly
 Failure to cite a source
 Creation of false sources
Turning in another person’s work as your own
T YPES OF
PL AGIARISM
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DIRECT PLAGIARISM

Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a

section of someone else’s work, without attribution and
without quotation marks.
The deliberate plagiarism of someone else's work is
unethical, academically dishonest, and grounds for
disciplinary actions, including expulsion.
EXAMPLE OF DIRECT PLAGIARISM
S TU D EN T WR I T E R A :
Long ago, when there was no written
history, these islands were the home of
millions of happy birds; the resort of a
hundred times more millions of fishes, sea
lions, and other creatures. Here lived
innumerable creatures predestined from the
creation of the world to lay up a store of
wealth for the British farmer, and a store of
quite another sort for an immaculate
Republican government.
o Writer A has included a word-for-word passage from his/her source without any indication that it is a
direct quotation.
SOURCE:
• "In ages which have no record these islands
were the home of millions of happy birds,
the resort of a hundred times more millions
of fishes, of sea lions, and other
creatures whose names are not so common;
the marine residence, in fact, of innumerable
creatures predestined from the creation of the
world to lay up a store of wealth for the British
farmer, and a store of quite another sort for an
immaculate Republican government."
SELF PLAGIARISM

Self-plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her own

previous work, or mixes parts of previous works, without
permission from all professors involved. For example, it would be
unacceptable to incorporate part of a term paper you wrote in high
school into a paper assigned in a college course.
Self-plagiarism also applies to submitting the same piece of work
for assignments in different classes without previous permission
from both professors.
MOSAIC PLAGIARISM
Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases
from a source without using quotation marks, or finds
synonyms for the author’s language while keeping to the
same general structure and meaning of the original.
Sometimes called “patch writing,” this kind of
paraphrasing, whether intentional or not, is academically
dishonest and punishable – even if you footnote your
source
EXAMPLE OF MOSAIC PLAGIARISM
STUDENT WRITER A: SOURCE:
• "In ages which have no record these islands

• Only two years later, all these friendly were the home of millions of "Contrast the
condition into which all these friendly Indians
Sioux were suddenly plunged into are suddenly plunged now, with their
new conditions, including starvation, condition only two years previous: martial law
martial law on all their reservations, now in force on all their reservations;
and constant urging by their friends themselves in danger of starvation, and
and relations to join in warfare against constantly exposed to the influence of
emissaries from their friends and relations,
the treacherous government that had
urging them to join in fighting this treacherous
kept faith with neither friend nor foe.
government that had kept faith with nobody--
neither with friend nor with foe.
o Writer A has borrowed with slight variations an uncited phrase from his/her source. As it's written, the passage would not
constitute a paraphrase (even if Writer A had acknowledged his/her source) because it contains keywords from the original
source that do not appear in quotation marks
ACCIDENTAL PLAGIARISM

Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to

cite their sources, or misquotes their sources, or
unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar
words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without
attribution.
Students must learn how to cite their sources and to take
careful and accurate notes when doing research.
HOW TO AVOID
PL AGIARISM
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HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
SUMMARIZE
 You must reference the original source
 Your summary should be shorter than the text you are
summarizing
 You must use your own words, usually with a very
limited use of quotations
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
 Paraphrase
You must reference the original source
The text you produce may be shorter or longer than
the original text
You must use your own words
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
Quote
 You must reference the original source
 The text produced is the exact length of the original text quoted (unless
ellipses are used)
You must use the original author’s exact words and you must put quotation
marks around them
 You must include the page number of the source from which you borrowed the
author’s original language
 You can introduce quotes with phrases like According to Bob Jones, “xxx” or
Bob Jones stated,
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM
Provide a References page
All the sources cited in the paper must be put in the References
page found after the Recommendation part of the paper

Include documentation
All visual images, charts, and graphs from printed and electronic
sources must be properly documented