Plagiarism definition

Plagiarism means to take and present as one's own a material portion of the ideas or words of another or to present as one's own an idea or work derived from an existing source without full and proper credit to the source of the ideas, words, or works. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
Plagiarism means to take and use another’s words or ideas as one’s own.
Plagiarism means the intentional unacknowledged use or incorporation of any other person's work in, or as a basis for, one's own work offered for academic consideration or credit or for public presentation. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, representing as one's own, without attribution, any other individual’s words, phrasing, ideas, sequence of ideas, information or any other mode or content of expression.

Examples of Plagiarism in a sentence

  • Plagiarism is defined as "Presenting someone else's work, in whole or in part, as your own.


More Definitions of Plagiarism

Plagiarism means the practice of taking someone else’s work or idea and passing them as one’s own.
Plagiarism as used in this clause, means the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
Plagiarism means the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.
Plagiarism means the presentation of another person's work in any quantity without adequately identifying it and citing its source in a way which is consistent with good scholarly practice in the discipline and commensurate with the level of professional conduct expected from the student. The source which is plagiarised may take any form (including words, graphs and images, musical texts, data, source code, ideas or judgements) and may exist in any published or unpublished medium, including the internet.
Plagiarism means the presentation of ideas or words from one’s own or someone else’s sources without proper acknowledgment of the sources.
Plagiarism means to take and present as one’s own a material portion of the ideas or words of another or to present as one’s own an idea or work derived from an existing source without full and proper credit to the source of the ideas, words, or works.
Plagiarism means passing off ideas, however expressed, including in the form of phrases, words, images, artefacts, sounds, or other intellectual or artistic outputs, as one’s own when they are not one’s own; or such passing off, as an original contribution, of ideas that are one’s own but have been expressed on a previous occasion for assessment by any academic institution or in any published form, without acknowledgement of the previous expression. Plagiarism is understood as one of several related forms of academic dishonesty, all of which are addressed in the Student Disciplinary Code and the UJ Policy on Academic Misconduct (once approved).