Week 3 - What Is Plagiarism

What is Plagiarism?
Week 1, Chapter 3
Defining Plagiarism
 Plagiarism is a specific form of cheating which is almost wholly found in

respect of assignments completed by students independently.
 The act of presenting other’s work or ideas as your own is called
plagiarism.
 Plagiarist is a kind of thief “who steals the thoughts or writings of others
and gives them out as his own” (Cambridge dictionary).
Why Students Plagiarise?
 There are many reasons why students plagiarise, for example:

 Not being fully aware of what plagiarism is
 Short-term panic response when an assignment is due and time is short
 Feeling desperate not to be seen as a failure and so copying to try to
ensure success.
 Sometimes, plagiarism is a determined and deliberate attempt to gain the
credits for the course without doing the work.
How to Avoid Plagiarism
 Using quotations
 Paraphrasing
 Summarizing
 Cite all sources used
Type of Plagiarism Definition Severity
Global plagiarism Presenting an entire text Severe

by someone else as your
own work.
Paraphrasing plagiarism Rephrasing someone Serious
else’s ideas without
citation.
Verbatim plagiarism Directly copying a Serious
passage of text without
citation.
Type of Plagiarism Definition Severity
Mosaic plagiarism Combining text and ideas Serious

from different sources
without citation.
Self-plagiarism Reusing passages and Moderate
ideas from your own
previously submitted
work.
Incorrect citation Failing to give all the Moderate
necessary information in
your source citation.
Global Plagiarism
 Global plagiarism means taking an entire work by someone else and

passing it off as your own.
 You are committing plagiarism
 If you get someone else to write an essay or assignment for you
 If you find a text online and submit it as your own work,.
 You deliberately and directly lie about the authorship of a work
 This is one of the most serious types of plagiarism, and it can have
severe consequences.
Paraphrasing plagiarism
 Paraphrasing means rephrasing a piece of text in your own words.

 Paraphrasing without citation is the most common type of plagiarism.
 Paraphrasing itself is not plagiarism so long as you properly cite your
sources.
 If you translate a piece of text from another language, you need correctly
cite the original source.
 A translation without a source is still plagiarism, as you’re using someone
else’s ideas.
Verbatim Plagiarism (copy & paste)
 You commit verbatim plagiarism when you directly copy text from a
source and paste it into your own document without attribution.
 If the structure and the majority of the words are the same as in the
original, then it is verbatim plagiarism.
 If you want to use an author’s exact words, you need to quote the original
source in as in-text citation.
Mosaic Plagiarism (Patchwork
Plagiarism)
 Mosaic plagiarism is also known as patchwork plagiarism or incremental
plagiarism.
 It means copying some texts from different sources and putting it together
to create a new text.
 This includes slightly rephrasing passages while keeping many of the
same words and structure as the original.
 Plagiarism checkers like Turnitin can still easily detect it.
Citing incorrectly
 The key to avoiding plagiarism is citing your sources.

 You need to correctly format your citations according to the rules of
the citation style you are following.
 If you don’t include all the necessary information or you put it in the
wrong place, you could be committing plagiarism.
 Most styles require in-text citations plus a reference list or bibliography at
the end of your paper.
Example of a correct citation (APA Style)

Fishbein and Ajzen (1975) concluded that attitude can best be described as
a learned manner of reacting positively or negatively regarding a certain
behavior.
Plagiarizing your own work (self-plagiarism)
 Self-plagiarism means reusing work that you’ve previously submitted.

 Even though it’s your own work, it’s considered dishonest to present a
paper or a piece of data as brand new.
 There are a couple of different versions of self-plagiarism.
 The more serious is to turn in a paper you already submitted for a grade to
another class.
 Unless you have explicit permission to do so, this is always considered
self-plagiarism.
Resources
 https://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism/what-is-plagiarism.php
 https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/props.html
 https://unicheck.com/blog/5-ways-to-avoid-plagiarism
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What is Plagiarism?

 Plagiarism is a specific form of cheating which is almost wholly found in

 There are many reasons why students plagiarise, for example:

Global plagiarism Presenting an entire text Severe

Mosaic plagiarism Combining text and ideas Serious

 Global plagiarism means taking an entire work by someone else and

 Paraphrasing means rephrasing a piece of text in your own words.

 The key to avoiding plagiarism is citing your sources.

 Self-plagiarism means reusing work that you’ve previously submitted.

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