Definition of Plagiarism |
The Proliferation of Plagiarism |
Plagiarism Policies
Preventing Plagiarism | Obtaining Proof | Sources for this Guide
Preventing Plagiarism | Obtaining Proof | Sources for this Guide
Plagiarism Defined
In an online workshop offered by the University of Maryland's University College on "Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism in the Digital Environment," Professor Rebecca Moore Howard gave a succinct but inclusive definition.
"Most college plagiarism policies gather four very different textual activities
together under the heading of 'plagiarism,' and few specify differential responses
to these different textual activities.
- Fraud: submitting a paper written by someone else
- Patchwriting: using words and phrases from a source text (that may or may not be acknowledged), and patching them together into new sentences
- Failure to cite: not acknowledging the sources of words or information
- Failure to quote: not providing quotation marks for direct quotation"