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Plagiarism: in Fact, Academic Standards of Intellectual Honesty

Plagiarism involves copying or closely imitating another author's work and representing it as one's own. Within academia, plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty. Students caught plagiarizing can face penalties ranging from failure of the assignment to expulsion. Plagiarism includes copying work, failing to cite sources for ideas or words used, and changing only a few words of an original source without citation.

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Plagiarism: in Fact, Academic Standards of Intellectual Honesty

Plagiarism involves copying or closely imitating another author's work and representing it as one's own. Within academia, plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty. Students caught plagiarizing can face penalties ranging from failure of the assignment to expulsion. Plagiarism includes copying work, failing to cite sources for ideas or words used, and changing only a few words of an original source without citation.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the
representation of them as one's own original work." Within academia, plagiarism by students,
professors, or researchers is considered academic dishonesty or academic fraud and offenders are
subject to academic censure, up to and including expulsion. In the academic world, plagiarism by
students is a very serious offense. In many universities, academic degrees or awards may be revoked as
a penalty for plagiarism.

For cases in which a student commits plagiarism (e.g., submitting a copied piece of writing as original
work), a student may be expelled. Students can plagiarize by copying and pasting information from
other sources.

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

 Turning in someone else's work as your own

 Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit

 Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks

 Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation

 Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit

 Changing only the words of an original source is NOT sufficient to prevent plagiarism. You must
cite a source whenever you borrow ideas as well as words.

 It does not matter how much was copied? If even a small part of a work is found to have been
copied, it is still plagiarism.

On occasion, students accused of plagiarism have claimed that their plagiarism has occurred without
their knowledge or intent. Since ignorance of convention is not a reasonable defense, it is best to
become thoroughly acquainted both with the various ways in which plagiarism is construed, and with
the conventions of source attribution and proper documentation. Some students seem to believe that
there are different degrees of plagiarism, some not as a bad as others. No distinctions are made
between any of the following acts.

Academic Punishments

Most universities have zero tolerance for plagiarists. In fact, academic standards of intellectual honesty
are often more demanding than governmental copyright laws. If you have plagiarized a paper whose
copyright has run out, for example, you are no less likely to be disciplined than if you had plagiarized
copyrighted material.
A plagiarized paper almost always results in failure for the assignment, frequently in failure for the
course, and sometimes in expulsion. Plagiarism in one assignment of one course irrespective of its
quantum may validly result in expulsion from the institution.

In some of the academic decisions even 5 consecutive words in one assignment have been considered
plagiarism and have resulted in disciplining.

Legal Punishments as established in US:

Most cases of plagiarism are considered misdemeanors, punishable by fines of anywhere between $100
and $50,000 -- and up to one year in jail.

For citing you can use any standard format. I personally prefer APA: Interested students can visit.

http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm accessed on 4th July 2011

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/study/guides/apa.shtml accessed on 4th July 2011

Take special note of Web and Wikipedia referencing.

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