What is Plagiarism


Tiferes Citation and Plagiarism Guide 

 

What is Plagiarism?

 

Academic honesty from Shayne Train

 

Cheating is the act of getting unauthorized help on an assignment, quiz or exam.

 

Plagiarism is the act of misrepresenting someone else’s work as your own.  
Works can include written material, web information, images, music, graphs, e-mails - and even ideas!  Giving credit to the person who thought up the idea, created the art or wrote that web entry is ethical, respectful and academically honest. Would you want someone to take your original work and pass it off as their own?  Probably not.

 

Different types of Plagiarism:

 

Why do people Plagiarize? What can you do about it?

 

 

  

http://www.slideshare.net/Rebaenrose/plagiarism-2093232

 

Tutorial on Plagiarism:

 

Visit this site and go through the tutorial:  http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

 

 


[1] IMAGE: Bedrosian, Wesley. Cartoon. Beat the Cheat: Teaching Students (and Parents) It's Not OK to Copy. Edutopia. Web. 28 Nov. 2011. <http://www.edutopia.org/images/graphics/plagiarism.jpg>.

 

 

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