Plagiarism Page

"To use another person's ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source is to plagiarize. Plagiarism, then, constitutes intellectual theft."
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed

Plagiarism is classified as Academic Dishonesty in the ABAC Catalog.
Here are some common examples of behaviors that are classified as plagiarism.

Submitting the work of someone else as your own
Using verbatim materials from any source, including a website, without quotation marks and appropriate reference citations in a standard documentation format
Using paraphrased statements or any other information from another source, including a website, without appropriate citations
Submitting a paper prepared by another person and/or obtained from a website or the Internet and representing it as one's own.
To use and pass off as one's own the ideas or writings of another.
To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from some one else
To put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language(1992)

"Psychologists do not present substantial portions or elements of another's work or data as their own, even if the other work or data source is cited occasionally." Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th ed

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