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What is Plagiarism?


Plagiarism Boy Copying Text You might be plagiarizing if you:
  • Submit someone else's work as your own.
  • Buy a paper from a papermill, website or other source.
  • Copy sentences, phrases, paragraphs, or ideas from someone else's work, published or unpublished, without giving the original author credit.
  • Replace select words from a passage without giving the original author credit.
  • Copy any type of multimedia (graphics, audio, video, internet streams), computer programs, music compositions, graphs, or charts from someone else's work without giving the original author credit.
  • Piece together phrases, ideas, and sentences from a variety of sources to write an essay.
  • Build on someone else's idea or phrase to write your paper without giving the original author credit.
  • Submit your own paper in more than one course without permission.

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