ENGL 1102 Lindberg - Fall 2013: Plagiarism

Plagiarism is...

• turning in someone else's work and claiming it as your own.

• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit.

• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks (yes, this is plagiarism)
  

• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation.

• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.

• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not.

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