Guidelines on Plagiarism
Department of English as a Second Language, Laney College
Definitions:
plagiarize, v. To practice plagiarism upon; to take and use as one's own the thoughts, writings, or inventions of another. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. 1989
plagiarize, vt: to steal and pass of (the ideas or words of another) as one's own, to use (a created production) without crediting the source, vi: to commit literary theft: to present as new and original and idea or product derived from an existing source. Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 1991
plagiarize, v. to take the words or ideas of someone else and use them as if they were one's own:
Usage note: Plagiarizing someone else's writing is a serious offense in the USA. Students who plagiarize in colleges or universities can be expelled from school and writers or journalists who plagiarize can lose their jobs. The Newbury House Dictionary of American English 1999
from Ann Raimes' Keys for Writers:
"If you deliberately or inadvertently use someone else's actual words or even ideas without attributions as if they were your own, that is plagiarism, a word derived from the Latin verb meaning "to kidnap." Plagiarism is kidnapping or stealing someone else's ideas and presenting them to readers as your own. Plagiarizing is a serious offense in academic and public life.
You plagiarize if you
- do not acknowledge a quotation;
- fail to put an author's words inside quotations marks;
- paraphrase or summarize the facts or opinions from sources without stating exactly where they come from;
- use in your paper long sections that have been rewritten by a friend or a tutor
- buy, find, or receive a paper that you turn in as your own work.
Make sure you do not steal, but borrow and cite instead. "
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