"Plagiarism is considered a form of intellectual theft and fraud. It involves using someone else's words or ideas and passing them off as your own by not providing credit, either deliberately or accidentally. However, it can also involve reusing your own work from a previous course, and passing it off as new work."
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Plagiarism can include:
- Copying and pasting from a source without enclosing the text in quotation marks and providing a citation.
- Summarizing or rewording someone else's ideas without providing a citation.
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Plagiarism can be:
accidental - blatant - self.
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Consequences of plagiarism
Copyright infringement
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How to avoid plagiarism
To avoid plagiarism, simply follow these two steps:
- Quote, paraphrase or summarize the words or ideas from someone else.
- Give credit to the original source by including a citation in the text and the reference list.
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To the attention of @cryptokannon / @thegreens