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Can You Recognise Plagiarism?

Plagiarism in all its disguises: Common forms of plagiarism

Downloading an assignment from an online source and submitting it as your own work.

Buying, stealing or borrowing an assignment and submitting it as your own work.

Copying a section of a book, article or website and submitting it as your own work.

Copying, cutting and pasting text from an electronic source and submitting it as your own work.

Taking exact sentences or paragraphs from someone else (essay, article, book, lecture, web page, newspaper) without quotation marks and without proper acknowledgement. More

Using the exact words of someone else, with proper acknowledgement, but without quotation marks. More

Putting someone else's ideas into your own words and not acknowledging the source of the ideas. More

Using your own ideas, but with heavy reliance on phrases and sentences from someone else without acknowledgement. More

Relying too much on other people's material; that is, repeated use of long quotations (even with quotation marks and with proper acknowledgement). More

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