What are the types of plagiarism?

Deliberate plagiarism:

• Copying a source and passing it off as your own thought or idea (Aaron, 136).


• Using or buying material from others such as papermills and turning it in as your own work (Booth, 77).

Accidental plagiarism:

• Citing a source but forgetting to put quotation marks around the quote or using quotation marks but forgetting the citation(Aaron, 136).


• carelessly using the same words when you meant to paraphrase or summarize with your own words (Aaron 137).


• paraphrasing too closely and having the same sentence or paragraph structure as the source (Aaron, 136).


• Writing a paper that so closely follows a source as to have the same outline or paragraph structure (Booth, 42).

Whether deliberate or accidental, plagiarism is serious a must be avoided.

Quotes, paraphrasing, and summaries must be properly acknowledged as another's work.

Plagiarism True/False quiz

Sources:
Aaron, J. E. (2006). The little brown essential handbook (5th ed.). New York: Pearson Education, Inc.

Booth, W.C., Colomb, G. G. and Williams, J. M. (2007). A manual for writers of research papers, theses and dissertations (7th ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.