Plagiarisms as Defined by IWU
"'To plagiarize is to include someone else's writing, information, or idea in a paper and fail to acknowledge what you took by indicating whose work it is'....
In other words, it is not giving credit where credit is due. Plagiarism is both a moral and ethical offense and sometimes a legal one.
Examples of plagiarism include:
1. Copying another person's actual words without the use of quotation marks, source citation, or footnotes.
2. Presenting another person's ideas or theories in your own words without citing the source.
3. Failing to acknowledge contribution and collaboration from others.
4. Using information that is not common knowledge without citing the source.
5. Submitting downloaded papers or parts of papers, 'cutting and pasting,' or paraphrasing or copying information from Internet sources without proper acknowledgement of a source." **
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