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Plagiarism: What It Is and How To Prevent It

Plagiarism: What It Is and How To Prevent It

While most definitions for plagiarism are very similar, centering on the notion of taking another's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own, in practice, it can come in many different forms. These forms can range from the outright copying of someone else's complete work to the use of quotes from someone else without properly attributing them; from doing someone else's exams or term papers to the buying of essays from Internet paper mills.

Another problem related to plagiarism is that it is so seldom reportedùeither by other students or by teachers. Students argue that it is none of their business or that they do not have proof. Teachers are concerned about legal issues, their workload, that cheating is so endemic there is no way to stop it, or that they get no support. Petress (2003) cites the case of a Kansas teacher who failed students she caught cheating but who was rebuked by the school board and had her decisions struck down.

Numerous studies have been done on the identification of plagiarismùespecially in the areas of noting "red flags" or incongruities. According to Moore (2002), one of the most common of these "red flags" is the handing in of a paper that does not reflect the student's academic ability or capacityùmost often with the paper written at a higher level than the student has previously shown. Another is the inclusion of material that is "blended" or seems a mix of various theories and/or facts. A third is a difference in the way different parts of the paper are written. A fourth is the introduction of anachronistic material.

In two studies conducted by Roig (1997) of 316 and 231 undergraduates respectively, the students were handed one original passage and 10 others that had been rewritten. Some of the passages were properly paraphrased; others suffered from plagiarism. The researcher found that, while so

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