Common Types of Plagiarism

Plagiarism usually takes one of these forms:

• A person submits, under her own name, a paper written entirely by someone else.
• A writer takes full credit for a paper written in collaboration with others.
• A writer copies parts of a paper written by someone else, and patches those parts into her own work without proper attribution.
• A writer copies the structure of phrases or passages, substituting synonyms or similar examples for the originals.
• A writer makes use of another person’s idea, argument, or data without properly crediting that person for the idea, argument, or data.

All of these types of plagiarism can be the result of a deliberate effort to deceive. But the last three types can also occur if a student misunderstands how to incorporate sources properly.

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