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Plagiarism

Library Research Guide

Intentional

Intentional

  • Copying a friend’s work
  • Buying or borrowing papers    
  • Cutting and pasting blocks of text from electronic sources without documenting
  • Media “borrowing”without documentation
  • Web publishing without permissions of creators
  • Translation (translating a chapter from another language and publishing it as an article)

Unintentional

Unintentional

  • Careless paraphrasing
  • Poor documentation
  • Quoting excessively
  • Failure to use your own “voice”

Self Plagiarism

Self Plagiarism

  • Republishing an article
  • Reusing a paper written for another class
  • Research misconduct occurs when researchers fabricate data, falsify results, or fail to properly attribute information used in articles, reports, or studies

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