What is Plagiarism?

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Plagiarism can be any of the following:

• Passing off someone else’s words as your own

• Passing off someone else’s ideas as your own

• Rewording a source but retaining the original ideas it contains, without giving due credit

• Failing to put a quote in quotation marks

• Copying large sections of someone else’s words or ideas, even if credit is given or quotation marks are used

• Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation – for example, citing a source that the real author has found and used, that you do not have a copy of

• Changing the words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit. When writers guarantee that their work is free from plagiarism, this is the definition they are referring to.

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