Avoid Plagiarism

According to Oxford Dictionary of English, plagiarism is "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. All published and unpublished material, whether in manuscript, printed or electronic form, is covered under this definition. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional.

Examples of plagiarism:

• Turning in someone else's work as your own
• Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not 
• Copying images from the Internet to use in your own paper or website without giving credit
• Using copyrighted music as the soundtrack of your video

Most common types of plagiarism

In 2016, TurnitIn have conducted a survey of scientific researchers, and identified ten common types of plagiarism in research:

1. Clone - Submitting another's work, word-for-word, as one's own
2. CTRL+C - Contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations
3. Find/Replace - Changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source
4. Remix - Paraphrases from multiple sources, made it to fit together
5. Recycle - Borrows generously from the writer's previous work without citation
6. Hybrid - Combines perfectly cited sources with copied passages without citation
7. Mashup - Mixes copied material from multiple sources
8. 404 Error - Includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources
9. Aggregator  - Includes proper citation to sources but the paper contains almost no original work
10. Re-Tweet - Includes proper citation, but relies on too closely on the text's original wording and/or structure

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