26 Common Examples of Plagiarism
Let’s have a look at a few common examples of plagiarism, using the same essay excerpt as on the previous page. The student’s ideas are in purple, and borrowed ideas are highlighted in bright yellow.
Example 1: Can you spot what is wrong?
Example Using APA Style:
A common finding throughout these studies was that immigrants tended to first ask friends and families when seeking out information. Immigrants sought out familiar and societal connections that created, many times, an ethnic community within their country of settlement. The range of basic needs such as housing to health, many immigrants preferred advice and information from their close circles. This exchange is analogous to “social remittances”.
Technology played a large part in the information behavior of both new and established immigrants. Libraries that increased the use of multicultural website formats could open more forms of access to Chinese immigrants and potentially many other ethnic groups in New Zealand. Many younger immigrants typically stayed away from libraries and relied on smartphones for access to the Internet. North American immigrants to Israel relied on the Internet when they were purposely looking for information sources.
Barriers to information needs include social inclusion and exclusion. This encompasses linguistic and cultural differences as reoccurring themes throughout these studies. The majority of researchers touch upon information poverty and social exclusion as a consequence of information needs that are unmet or pushed aside. The notion of “information poverty” among all immigrant groups is not unilateral. Instead, immigrants have differing motivations for immigrating which results in differing knowledge within these groups.
Excerpts adapted from an essay by V. Eldridge and used with permission.
Example 2: Can you spot what is wrong?
Example using APA Style:
A common finding throughout these studies was that immigrants tended to first ask friends and families when seeking out information. Immigrants sought out familiar and societal connections that created, many times an ethnic community within their country of settlement. Many immigrants preferred the advice and information from their close circles with matters concerning basic needs such as housing and health in Hultgren’s study (2011). This exchange is analogous to what Lingel calls, “social remittances,” (2011).
Technology played a large part in the information behavior of both new and established immigrants. Machet and Govender find that libraries that increased the use of multicultural website formats could open more forms of access to Chinese immigrants and potentially many more ethnic groups in New Zealand (2012). Many younger immigrants typically stayed away from libraries and relied on smartphones for access to the Internet (Lingel, 2011) and North American immigrants to Israel relied on the Internet when they were purposely looking for information sources.
Barriers to information needs include social inclusion and exclusion. This encompasses linguistic and cultural differences as reoccurring themes. The majority of researchers touch upon information poverty and social exclusion as a consequence of information needs that are unmet or pushed aside. Khoir criticizes the notion of “information poverty” among all immigrant groups. Instead, he argues that immigrants have differing motivations for immigrating which results in differing knowledge within these groups (2015, p. 87).
Example 3: Can you spot what is wrong?
Example using APA Style:
A common finding throughout these studies was that immigrants tended to first ask friends and families when seeking out information. Immigrants sought out familiar and societal connections that created, many times an ethnic community within their country of settlement. Many immigrants preferred the advice and information from their close circles with matters concerning basic needs such as housing and health. This exchange is analogous to “social remittances” .
Technology played a large part in the information behavior of both new and established immigrants. Libraries that increased the use of multicultural website formats could open more forms of access to Chinese immigrants and potentially many more ethnic groups in New Zealand. Many younger immigrants typically stayed away from libraries and relied on smartphones for access to the Internet and North American immigrants to Israel relied on the Internet when they were purposely looking for information sources (Lingel, 2011; Machet & Govender, 2012; Khoir, 2015 p.87).
Barriers to information needs include social inclusion and exclusion. This encompasses linguistic and cultural differences as reoccurring themes. The majority of researchers touch upon information poverty and social exclusion as a consequence of information needs that are unmet or pushed aside. Khoir criticizes the notion of “information poverty” among all immigrant groups. Instead, he argues that immigrants have differing motivations for immigrating which results in differing knowledge within these groups (2015, p. 87).
Source: (Eldridge, 2017, p. 4)
