Plagiarism is passing off the work of someone else as your own. It's one of the most serious academic violations a student can commit in college. Your course's syllabus includes the following statement on plagiarism:
"Plagiarism: Plagiarism occurs when presenting as one's own the distinctive ideas, facts, or words of another (in part or in whole) without appropriate acknowledgement of the source. Issues of plagiarism apply to any type of work including, but not limited to exams, papers, any writing or printed text, computer programs, websites, art, music, photography, or video. This includes turning in borrowed or bought research papers as one's own. Students who violate this policy may be referred to Student Conduct and may fail the assignment. Please see the Student Code of Conduct for more information about this policy. "
This page of the guide is intended as a way to inform you what forms plagiarism can take, and how you can avoid it.
There are several different forms of plagiarism, as laid out by Turnitin.com's Plagiarism Spectrum. Three of the most common are:
1. Clone--Submitting another's work, word-for-word, as one's own.
2. Find & Replace--Changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source.
3. Re-Tweet--Includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text's original wording and/or structure.
Ref.: "The Plagiarism Spectrum," Turnitin.com, 2016, www.turnitin.com/static/plagiarism-spectrum/.
