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Plagiarism vs. CheatingPlagiarism vs. Cheating

What is the difference?What is the difference?

Cheating is Cheating is receiving receiving

unauthorized help unauthorized help on an assignment, on an assignment,

quiz or examquiz or exam

Plagiarism is Plagiarism is the act of the act of presenting presenting anotheranother’’s work or s work or ideas as your own.ideas as your own.

Plagiarism is Plagiarism is the act of the act of presenting presenting anotheranother’’s work or s work or ideas as your own.ideas as your own.

Plagiarism can be Plagiarism can be unintentionalunintentional or or intentionalintentional..

Do you know the Do you know the difference?difference?

Examples of Plagiarism

• Patch-writing: Using sections of writing Patch-writing: Using sections of writing copied from a variety of sources, linked copied from a variety of sources, linked together with additional sentences. This is together with additional sentences. This is considered plagiarism unless all directly considered plagiarism unless all directly quoted text is indicatedquoted text is indicated•Failing to cite a source (bibliography or Failing to cite a source (bibliography or works cited page)works cited page)•Failing to use quotation marksFailing to use quotation marks

DonDon’’t forgett forgetquotation marks!quotation marks!

An example of An example of intentional intentional

plagiarism is:plagiarism is:Buying or Buying or Copying Copying paperspapers

• Words or ideas presented in a magazine, book, newspaper, song, TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter, advertisement, or any other medium

• Information you gain through interviewing or conversing with another person, face to face, over the phone, or in writing

• When you copy the exact words or a unique phrase

• When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts, pictures, or other visual materials

• When you reuse or repost any electronically-available media, including images, audio, video, or other media

The above information came from OWL - Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/ and accessed on 12/20/2010.

• Writing your own lived experiences, your own observations and insights, your own thoughts, and your own conclusions about a subject

• When you are writing up your own results obtained through lab or field experiments

• When you use your own artwork, digital photographs, video, audio, etc.

• When you are using "common knowledge," things like folklore, common sense observations, myths, urban legends, and historical events (but not historical documents)

• When you are using generally-accepted facts, e.g., pollution is bad for the environment, including facts that are accepted within particular discourse communities, e.g., in the field of composition studies, "writing is a process" is a generally-accepted fact.

The above information came from OWL - Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/02/ and accessed on 12/20/2010.

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