Overview: Our Goal
In our experience with writers over the years, we have observed two prevalent kinds of plagiarism:
- word-for-word
- paraphrasing
You need to be able to identify these kinds of plagiarism in order to avoid them. You also need to be able to discern when plagiarism does not occur.
This is the main focus of this instruction. When provided with original source material and a sample of student writing, you should be able to correctly identify which parts of the student version are word-for-word plagiarism, paraphrasing plagiarism, and which parts are not plagiarized.
But first: what you should do, not do, why, and what ...?
- What you should do to avoid plagiarism
- But I won't get caught!
- R U a dupe?
- The slippery slope with symbolic signs
- Cases of plagiarism and their consequences
Bibliographic references are provided at the end of this Overview.