Common Forms of Plagiarism

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

Original

The complexity of the current global economy has to do with certain fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture and politics which we have barely begun to theorise.

Plagiarised

The complexity of the current global economy has to do with certain fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture and politics which we have barely begun to theorise.

Acceptable

"The complexity of the current global economy has to do with certain fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture and politics which we have barely begun to theorise" (Appadurai 1999, p. 221).

What makes it acceptable?

• The use of quotation marks to indicate borrowed material.
• Correct in-text citation.
• The material between quotation marks is exactly the same as the original