8 Plagiarism Defined
Plagiarism is one of the most frequent academic integrity violations. It ranges in severity from blatant plagiarism, where a student simply submits a whole work that is not their own, for example a paper they purchased online, to inadvertent plagiarism, where a student tried to do honest work, but still accidentally plagiarized.
What does the word plagiarism mean?
Have a look at the following video to get a better understanding of what plagiarism means, and how to avoid it:
Key Takeaway
There are many definitions of the word plagiarism, but all have one thing in common:
- the misrepresentation of something as your own.
Sources
Academic Integrity at East Central University © 2022 by Vivian Eldridge and Shawna Bishop is adapted from Academic Integrity at Tulsa Community College by Tulsa Community College and Academic Integrity by Ulrike Kestler, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
