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Plagiarism

Published on Feb 06, 2016

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Plagiarism

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...from the Latin word for "kidnapper." When you plagiarize you "kidnap" another person's ideas and research.

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"The false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person's mind, and presenting it as one's own." -Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality

Moral offense
vs.
Legal offense

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Copying a poem or artwork that is not yours and pretending that it is.

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Taking a part or parts of someone else's story or work, putting it into yours, and then saying you made it up.

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If a piece of information didn't come from your own thoughts, you should be able to say exactly where it came from.

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Credit should be given to a person who has helped you learn about something you never knew about before.

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Printing a picture off the internet and including it in a school report but never explaining where you got it is plagiarism.

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If you copy word-for-word out of a reference book and pretend those words and ideas come from your own mind, you are plagiarizing.

If you cheat an author out of credit for his or her work by allowing a reader to assume you created the work, you are plagiarizing.

Deceiving others into believing that you created an original artwork when you really traced or copied it from someone else's is an act of plagiarism.

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If you copy another person's ideas and present them as your own to get a better grade on a school report, you are plagiarizing.

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Cutting and pasting ideas from a website into your report, then putting your name on the report as if it was your own is plagiarism.

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If you use another person's ideas, artwork, or writing as your own without the author's consent, you are plagiarizing.

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Plagiarism

can have legal ramifications.
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