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| Plagiarism: What is
it and how to avoid it Introduction Last Updated: 2/7/06[bsb] |
According to the electronic edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, plagiarism is defined as "The action or practice of plagiarizing; the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one's own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of another." Basically, this means that, either intentionally or
unintentionally, writers use others' words or ideas without giving credit. Acts of
plagiarism can range from buying or downloading papers wholesale from the Internet to
paraphrasing someone else's words or ideas without giving
credit. |
