Plagiarism Overview
What Constitutes Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is taking another writer’s words or ideas and passing them off as your own. It includes any of the following:
Taking another writer’s exact words and neglecting to put them in quotation marks.
Taking another writer’s ideas, rewording them, and neglecting to cite the ideas.
Paraphrasing from an original source but retaining key phrases of the original wording and neglecting to put quotation marks around these phrases.
Replacing key words in another writer’s work with your own words but neglecting to alter the sentence structure. This may reflect a good faith effort to paraphrase, but it is still plagiarism because you are keeping the spirit and structure of the original work.
Paraphrasing means that you are not using the original author’s exact wording but rather are summarizing the information in your own words. Citations are required even when paraphrasing because the ideas are not your own.
Please note that paraphrasing means that both the language and the sentence structure are different from the original. All outside sources must be sufficiently restructured, reworded, and cited even when paraphrased.
Failure to do any of the above constitutes plagiarism.
Plagiarism and Grades
Non-Research Work
All work that is copied directly from an outside source will receive a zero.
Work that incorporates passages or clearly recognizable points from an outside source with no quotation marks, citations, or acknowledgement of the original author will receive a failing grade.
Work shared between students will result in a zero for the student sharing and the student borrowing.
Research Papers
It is understood that most information presented in research papers is from outside sources; therefore, research papers are less likely than non-research work to attempt to attribute outside ideas to the student. However, all ideas must be cited even when paraphrased.
Research papers that sufficiently paraphrase original sources but do not contain parenthetical citations crediting these sources will be penalized at the professor’s discretion.
All language taken directly from outside sources must be quoted.
Research papers that incorporate passages taken directly from outside sources, with no quotation marks or citations, will receive a zero.
Research papers with paraphrased, cited passages that still contain some key phrasing from the original source, with no quotation marks, will be penalized at the professor’s discretion.
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