Definition
In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism
1. submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and
2. carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source.
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from Plagiarism.org and Turnitin.com
“What is Plagiarism?” Plagiarism.org. Accessed June 10, 2013. <//http://plagiarism.org/citing-sources/whats-a-citation>
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