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Disease Project Biol 2030 Spring 2025

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else's work and passing it on as your own. 

Types of Plagiarism

  • Complete Plagiarism - Submitting someone else's entire work.
  • Direct Plagiarism - Adding pieces of someone else's work to your own and submitting it.
  • Paraphrasing Plagiarism - Making a few changes to someone's work and submitting it.
  • Patchwork Plagiarism - Weaving someone else's work into your own and submitting it.
  • Accidental Plagiarism - Incorrectly citing or not citing your sources on your work and submitting it.

Preventing Plagiarism

  • Cite your sources
  • Use quotation marks and in-text citations
  • Keep a record of your sources as you work
  • Use the author's name when integrating his work into your work
  • If it's questionable, cite it
  • Do not copy someone else's work and submit it as your own