Types of Plagiarism

 

Types of Plagiarism

• Full plagiarism

• Unintentional plagiarism

• Partial plagiarism

• Minimalistic plagiarism

• Self-plagiarism

“The Copy Machine”- Sources not cited

•The author submits an assignment copied word for word from a source different from his or her own

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"The Phantom Writer” - Sources not cited

•The author uses some of his or her own words in his or her submission, but substantial parts are taken without modification from a single source

"The Frankenstein Paper" - Sources not

cited•The author tries to pass off a work as his or

her own that has been stitched together from various sources with a few words being altered here and there to try to disguise the original phrasing.

"Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing" - Sources not

cited •The author tries to

cover his or her lifting of the essential content of a source by minimally altering key words and phrases.

"The Lazy Man’s Prerogative" - Sources not

cited•The author meticulously changes all

phrases and words from one source into his or her own but neglects to cite the source.

"The Double-Dipper" - Sources not

cited•This author reuses large amounts of work

previously drafted by himself or herself. This violates originality expectations inherent to most academic institutions.

"The Missing Link" - Sources cited (but still plagiarized)•With this example of plagiarism, the author

notes a source but does not include a specific in-text citation that leads to a reference citation that denotes the exact bibliographic information from the text. Therefore, the link between the in-text citation reference and reference page reference is broken.

"The Scrambler” - Sources cited (but still plagiarized)•The author scrambles information so that

inaccurate information regarding the sources is noted. This makes the source impossible to find and accuracy cannot be determined.

"Para-Masquerade” - Sources cited (but still plagiarized)

•With this example of plagiarism, the writer inserts a direct quote but tries to pass it off as a paraphrase because he or she did not put the direct quote in quotation marks but DID supply an in-text citation.

“The Originality MIA Factor" - Sources cited (but still plagiarized)

• With this type of plagiarism, the writer accurately cites all paraphrases and gives credit where it is due, but the author neglected the requirement of submitting original work. Remember that all paraphrases should be based on excerpts from expert sources, not the entire source. Paraphrases, after being accurately cited, should also be accompanied by the writer’s personal analysis of the paraphrase.

"The Pass-Off" - Sources cited (but still plagiarized)• In this situation of

plagiarism, large sections of the author’s work are original but interspersed within the original are sections of un-cited paraphrases. In this way, the paraphrased material is passed off as the writer’s own.

Which type of plagiarism do you feel deserves the harshest penalty? Did any of the types of plagiarism surprise you? What types?

References• Copy Machine. (n. d. ). [Media]. Retrieved from https://www.google.com/search?

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• Lazy Man. (n. d.). Retrieved from: http://www.unliberaledwoman.com/a-smoke-mirrors-presidency/

• Masquerade Mask. (n. d.). Retrieved from: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.clker.com%2Fclipart-purple-masquerade-mask.html&h=0&w=0&sz=1&tbnid=txUTs0Mlc3SV9M&tbnh=160&tbnw=314&zoom=1&docid=WdlCsd_m_Xc4-M&ei=zIzFUq3ID8XYyAHviYDwDw&ved=0CAIQsCUoAA

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• Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing. (n. d.). Retrieved from http://onedayworkweek.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/false-teachers/