Degrees of Plagiarism in Writing Assignments

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Degrees of Plagiarism in Writing Assignments
1. Buying a ready-made essay from a paper mill
and submitting it under your own name, as though
you wrote it. 2. Paying someone to write an
essay for you and submitting it under your own
name. 3. Taking large sections of text from
someone elses essay and putting it into your own
essay without acknowledging the source of that
text.
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Plagiarism (continued)

• 4. Taking sentences and phrases from someone
  elses essay and putting it into your own essay
  without acknowledging the source of the sentences
  and phrases.
• 5. Submitting an essay written for a different
  course and handing it in as an assignment for a
  current course, as though you wrote that essay
  originally for the current course.

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Plagiarism (continued)

• 6. Paraphrasing ideas from someone elses
  research or writing without acknowledging it as
  the source of those ideas.
• 7. (Especially in a composition course) having
  someone other than you edit your essay.
• PS Accidental plagiarism is difficult to
  distinguish from deliberate plagiarism.