College Composition / Unit 24 CMP 0576 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Plagiarism Is
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The idea
Plagiarism is presenting someone else's words, ideas or work as your own, without giving credit.
In practice
It includes submitting another person's paper, buying one, and pasting in any phrase, sentence or passage from another writer without attribution.
Where people slip
Plagiarism is about credit, not intent; careless note-taking can produce it as surely as deliberate copying.
Your place on the trail
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