Plagiarism: The act of presenting another's work or ideas as your own.
Plagiarism takes three different forms: cheating, non-attribution of sources, and patchwriting.
Cheating: |
Non-attribution: |
Borrowing, purchasing, or otherwise obtaining work composed by someone else and submitting it under one's own name.
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Writing one's own paper but including passages copied exactly from the work of another without providing (a) footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical notes that cite the source and (b) quotation marks or block indentation to indicate precisely what has been copied from the source.
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Patchwriting:
Writing passages that are not copied exactly but that have nevertheless been borrowed from another source.
Source: Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." College English 57.7 (Nov. 1995): 708-36. Print.