1. Using another person’s ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work constitutes intellectual theft.
Plagiarism is sometimes a moral and ethical offense rather than a legal one since some instances of plagiarism fall outside the scope of copyright infringement, a legal offense.
" - MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition, 2003
You Have Plagiarized If
- while browsing the Web, you copied text and pasted it into your paper without quotation marks or without citing the source.
- you presented facts without saying where you found them.
- you repeated or paraphrased someone’s wording without acknowledgement.
- you took someone’s unique or particularly apt phrase without acknowledgement.
- you paraphrased someone’s argument or presented someone’s line of thought without acknowledgement.
- you bought or otherwise acquired a research paper and handed in part or all of it as your own.
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition, 2003
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