Definition: “Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.” (http://ori.hhs.gov/FR_Doc_05-9643)
Explanation: To give appropriate credit for another person’s writing, the writing must be formatted with quotation marks to clearly show that it is not yours, and a citation to the source must be given. Only giving a citation without marking the other person’s writing with quotation marks is not sufficient.
If you are using data or a photograph or graphic created by another person, you must clearly state that fact, usually in the caption of the photograph or graphic.
Plagiarism | Not Plagiarism |
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Because an entrepreneur is willing to put his or her career and financial security on the line and take risks in the name of an idea, we need to support each other through success and failure in order to succeed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship). | Because an “entrepreneur is willing to put his or her career and financial security on the line and take risks in the name of an idea,” we need to support each other through success and failure in order to succeed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship). |
In this example, it appears that we found some ideas reading Wikipedia, but we wrote about those ideas in our own words. Because we actually copied writing from Wikipedia, this would be considered plagiarism. We failed to show clearly that some writing was not ours. | In this example we clearly use quotation marks to show that we took some writing from Wikipedia and used it in our writing. This is not plagiarism. |
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