What is plagiarism?

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ALL ABOUT PLAGIARISM

ALL ABOUT PLAGIARISM

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What is plagiarism?

To plagiarize is "to use another person's idea or a part of their work and pretend that it is your own"

(Cambridge Dictionaries Online, 2009). This includes:

Copying or paraphrasing material from any source without due acknowledgment

Using another's ideas without due acknowledgment.

Plagiarism can be unintentional. Unintentional plagiarism is generally manifested where students do not have an intention to deceive the teacher (Sutherland-Smith, 2008)

Plagiarism detection software

There are a number of methods for determining if plagiarism has occurred. One method is to use plagiarism detection software, such as Turnitin.

Turnitin

Submitting a paper in Turnitin

To submit a paper in Turnitin, follow the steps:

Click on the submit icon

Select "file upload"

Enter the title of the paper

Click the Browse button to find the file on your computer

Click Submit

Reports in Turnitin

Turnitin utilizes colour conventions to indicate the overall similarity of text between the student paper and Turnitin sources. Possible similarity indices are:

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Last edited: 17-Apr-20

References

Cambridge Dictionaries Online. (2009). Retrieved February 2, 2009, from http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=60393&dict=CALD

Sutherland-Smith, W. (2008). Plagiarism, the internet and student learning: improving academic integrity. New York: Routledge.

Last edited: 17-Apr-20

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