MaxGuides: ENGL 199 Professor Link: What is Plagiarism?

According to Plagiarism.org, all of the following are considered acts of plagiarism:

Copying and pasting work from an electronic or physical source.
Stealing someone else's work.
Purchasing work from someone.
Turning in someone else's work as your own.
Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.
Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks.
Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation.
A paper or assignment used in one class and submitting it for a different class is termed as, "Self-Plagiarsm".

To understand these forms of plagiarism in detail, click on the link below:

NPR: Internet and College Cheating
This is a 9 minute podcast by one of NPR's anchor on talking to students and faculty at the University of Virginia (Charlotesville) and University of Maryland (College Park) on the topic of plagiarism.
NPR: Cut and Paste Plagiarism
Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business at Rutgers Business School, John Barrie, CEO and Creator of Turnitin.com, a plagiarism detection software program and
Michael Williams, director of graduate studies and associate professor of visual communications, Ohio University discuss the increase in plagiarism as a result of the Internet.

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