Plagiarism in the Classroom
All of the following are considered plagiarism:
1. Turning in someone else’s work as your own
2. Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
4. Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving
credit
6. Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of
your work, whether you give credit or not
7. Using your own work for more than one course without the instructor’s
knowledge (e.g. handing in a paper for Socials Studies and using this same
paper, or a selection of it, for English). Works Cited
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In addition:
1. As outlined in the University of British Columbia’s student planner, “students must
ensure that when they seek assistance from a learning specialist or anyone else
that the work they submit is actually their own.”
2. Changing the words of an original source is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism. If
you have retained the essential idea of an original source, and have not cited it,
then no matter how drastically you may have altered its context or presentation,
you have still plagiarized.
3. Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply
acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed, and providing your
audience with the information necessary to find that source, is usually enough to
prevent plagiarism.
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Consequences & Punishments for Plagiarism:
Academic Punishments in colleges and universities:
Most colleges and universities have zero tolerance for plagiarists. In fact, academic
standards of intellectual honesty are often more demanding than governmental
copyright laws. If you have plagiarized a paper whose copyright has run out, for
example, you are less likely to be treated with any more leniency than if you have
plagiarized copyrighted material. A plagiarized paper almost always results in failure for
the assignment, frequently in failure for the course, and sometimes in expulsion.
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