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PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism means using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit. In academic writing, plagiarizing involves using words, ideas, or information from a source without citing it correctly. In practice, this can mean a few different things.

Plagiarism is defined by the "Merriam-Webster Dictionary,” means “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own” and “to commit literary theft” by failing to acknowledge or cite source material.

Types of Plagiarism:

• Complete plagiarism means passing off an entire text by someone else as your own work.

• Verbatim plagiarism means directly copying someone else’s words. When we read a book we must have observed that if any statement that a famous person has made is always represented in double quotations and is highlighted so that we get to know that it is said by this particular person. Similarly consider a person writing an article and mentioning someone else’s work or words that too exactly the same. But this person doesn’t represent it in quotation marks. Then that person is said to be exhibiting direct plagiarism. Hence copying another person’s work word to word and not representing it in quotation marks is known as Verbatim or direct plagiarism

• Paraphrasing plagiarism means rephrasing someone else’s ideas to present them as your own.

• Patchwork plagiarism means stitching together parts of different sources to create your text.

• Self Plagiarism means recycling your own past work.

• Accidental Plagiarism: This kind of plagiarism mostly occurs due to a lack of knowledge. If we don’t know how to paraphrase, cite and quote a research work we leave the work as it is and it results in accidental plagiarism.

Learn More about Plagiarism :

• https://www.plagiarism.org/

• https://www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/skills/plagiarism#:~:text=The%20University%20defines%20plagiarism%20as,your%20work%20without%20full%20acknowledgement.

• https://www.scribbr.com/category/plagiarism/