Table of Contents for Plagiarism Module
   
1. Introduction
2. What will I learn?
3. What is plagiarism?
  3.1. Is this plagiarism?
  3.2. But what if...?
  3.3. Activity 1
4. Why shoudn't I?
  4.1. A victim's story
  4.2. Consequences
  4.3. Activity 2
5. How do I cite this?
  5.1. Paraphrasing
  5.2. Quoting
  5.3. Activity 3
6. Resources
7. Credits

What is plagiarism?


According to the American Heritage Dictionary1, to "plagiarize" means:

  • "to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own,"
  • "to appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another)," or
  • "to put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another."

"In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward."2

1Retrieved 03/11/05 from http://www.bartleby.com/61/43/P0344300.html.
2Retrieved 03/10/05 from http://www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_what_is_plagiarism.html.