AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Definitions:
- Plagiarism, as defined by the Little, Brown Essential Handbook for Writers, 3rd edition, is "the presentation of someone else's ideas or words as your own. Whether deliberate or accidental, plagiarism is a serious and often punishable offense" (Aaron 133).
- Deliberate plagiarism is "copying a sentence from a source and passing it off as your own and, summarizing someone else's ideas without acknowledging your debt, or buying a term paper and handing it in as your own" (Aaron 133).
- Accidental plagiarism is "forgetting to place quotation marks around other writer’s words, omitting a source citation because you're not aware of the need for it, or carelessly copying a source when you mean to paraphrase" (Aaron 133).
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Last updated: 5 January 2006 |
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