What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is when a person uses someone else’s work without permission of who owns this particular piece of work. Some of the acts that are considered as plagiarism:
• When you directly copy someone else’s work and palm it off as your own.
• If you quote someone in a particular piece of work, you must provide a credit this source
• When you re-arrange and edit pieces of text to make it seem as if someone has said something they haven’t.
It is also considered as plagiarism when you copy word for word a phrase from a book, website, newspaper or any other printed source. If you use a book for example in a particular piece of work you must include the author, publication date, title, edition, place of publication, and publisher. It’s the same if you are including a website in your work; you need to include the author or organisation/owner of this site, the title of the page and the URL and also the date that you visited that particular site.
There is also self-plagiarism, this occurs when a student reuses entire or parts of their own work that was previously submitted as an assignment without providing proper acknowledgement of this.
Most students have no idea what exactly is considered plagiarism, so they therefore unintentionally use plagiarism in their work. Also plagiarism is an expellable offence; if you’re caught out doing this in College or School you will most likely be expelled or punished as a result.
Plagiarism and Referencing Fact Sheet
http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/resourcesassessment/plagiarism/what_is_plagiarism.html
