Plagiarism Is When You Take the Words Or Ideas of Someone Else Without Acknowledging Them

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when you take the words or ideas of someone else without acknowledging them as the original source. Failing to credit the other person is stealing and constitutes plagiarism.

Research involves exploring other people’s ideas. The joy of research is that it allows you to communicate with others by reading their ideas and developing your own ideas.

Failure to properly cite when quoting directly or when paraphrasing is not respectful to the other person’s research or to your own integrity. Citing your sources may seem time consuming. However, failure to do so could result in serious consequences such as failing a class or being expelled.

Examples of Plagiarism

Generally, anger is defined as an emotional state ranging from irritation to rage that is excited by a real or imagined injury, hostility is defined as a feeling of enmity, and aggressiveness is defined as a proneness to unprovoked attacks or acts of hostility

This is a direct quote. If I do not use quotation marks and cite the source, then I am guilty of plagiarism.

“Generally, anger is defined as an emotional state ranging from irritation to rage that is excited by a real or imagined injury, hostility is defined as a feeling of enmity, and aggressiveness is defined as a proneness to unprovoked attacks or acts of hostility” (Kopper, Epperson, 1996).

Anger covers a range of irritation to rage.

This is paraphrasing and must be cited.

Anger covers a range of irritation to rage (Kopper, Epperson, 1996).

More examples of plagiarism and information about how to avoid it can be found on these sites.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/ From the Purdue writing center.

http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml Indiana University Writing Tutorial Center

http://gervaseprograms.georgetown.edu/hc/plagiarism.html Georgetown University Honor Council

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/tutorial/plagiarism/index.html Scholarly Communication Center of the NCSU Libraries

http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/tutorials/interactive/plagiarism/tutorial/table-of-contents.htm SFU Library Plagiarism Tutorial