• Presenting a submitting another student’s paper as one’s own.
• Paraphrasing an author’s words without proper acknowledgment.
• Quoting directly from a source (book, journal, and article) so as to imply that the words are one’s own.
Also, plagiarism is a fact of life that is in academic writing; sometimes it occurs when a person is lazy and not willing to engage him/her in research and study. According to Indiana University, academic misconduct is defined as any activity that tends to undermine the integrity of the institution. Academic misconduct includes:
• Cheating
• Fabrication
• Plagiarism
• Interference
• Violation of Course Rules
• Facilitating Academic Dishonesty
As the comes to mind to think of academic misconduct or plagiarism is the idea that a person has used words or sentences from someone else’s work, and not given the person credit. Plagiarism explained includes, plagiarism, collusion, and cheating.
• Plagiarism- involves the use of another person’s work without full and clear referencing and acknowledgment.
• Collusion- is a specific of cheating, that occurs when two or more students fail to abide by directions from the examiner regarding the permitted level of collaboration on an assessment.
• Cheating- involves presenting another student’s work as your own.
According to the University of Waterloo it states that “Copying and Pasting is never appropriate.” I choose this because I did that many of times in grammar school and never sited my sources. But now I know that you always have to show proof of where you got your information from.
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References: Gibaldi, J. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. (Sixth edn.). New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2003. Griffith University. Academic Integrity Student Tutorial, Forms of Academic Misconduct. 2010. Viewed May 20, 2010 via Griffith University intranet site. Song-Turner, H. . . "Plagiarism: Academic dishonesty or blind spot of multicultural education." Australian Universities Review. (2008): 5, 2, pp.39-50. Viewed May 20, 2010 via ERIC database.