Plagiarism Definition
Plagiarism
The unified definition of plagiarism has three criteria that all need to match:
(2) without appropriately acknowledging the source
(3) to benefit [in a setting where originality is expected].
The most common forms of plagiarism are:
| Inaccurately citing the source. | 51% |
| Interweaving various sources together without citing. | 43% |
| Using quotations, but not citing the source. | 26% |
| Proper citations, but failing to change structure/wording of the ideas. | 21% |
| Melding cited and uncited sections of the piece. | 17% |
| Citing some, but not all passages that should be cited. | 12% |
| Re-writing someone’s work without properly citing sources. | 11% |
| Taking passages from own previous work without adding citations. | 8% |
| Submitting someone’s work as own. | 2% |
Summary: Most cases of plagiarism can be prevented by employing proper citation.