What Is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is the act of using another author's words or ideas and presenting them as if they are yours.
Intentional Plagiarism
- Submitting a paper that you bought or downloaded
- Getting someone else to write your paper
- Cutting and pasting information to create your essay
- Cutting and pasting a sentence or two
- Making up sources
- Copying from a peer
- Not putting quotation marks around other's words
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Unintentional Plagiarism
- Working too closely with a partner or group
- Including sources in a bibliography without citing them in the text
- Using material directly from your textbook to complete an assignment
- Poor paraphrasing skills
- Poor quoting skills
- Poor citing skills
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Not Plagiarism:
- Using commonly known knowledge or facts. For example, "Justin Trudeau is the Prime Minister of Canada."
- Talking about yourself or your own completely original ideas/analysis.
