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Plagiarism and Citations: pt. 1: Plagiarism: Examples of Plagiarism

Plagiarism and Citation presentation

Examples

*Some examples of Plagiarism:

1.Turning in someone else's work as your own.
2.Copying large pieces of text from a source without citing that source.
3.Taking passages from multiple sources, piecing them together, and turning in the work as your own.
4.Copying from a source but changing a few words and phrases to disguise plagiarism.
5.Paraphrasing from a number of different sources without citing those sources.
6.Turning in work that you did for another class without getting your professor's permission first.
7.Buying an essay or paper and turning it in as your own work.

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This page is adapted from the Plagiarism Tutorial created by the University of Southern Mississippi. This work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International License.

 

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