Yes, it is. To cut in short, plagiarism is using someone else’s work as your own. Copying any form of text or any length of text is plagiarism when it is the work of someone else which is stolen and no credit or attribution to that original author and source. It can be a sentence long, an article or a definition.

Which action would be an instance of plagiarism? Copying sentences word for word from a source without putting quotation marks around them.

Submitting a paper found on a website. Borrowing a paper from another student. Copying straight from any source found online. Copying something and changing minor details.

Which behavior is an example of plagiarism? Using someone else’s ideas in your research report without a citation. A researcher should make efforts to minimize pain in nonhuman subjects in research.

Plagiarism is not a matter of quotation marks. So yes, depending on how you have formatted and phrased the text, the omission of quotation marks may well be interpreted as plagiarism. By the way, copying several paragraphs from any source will most likely not get you the best grade.

All of the following are considered plagiarism: copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit. failing to put a quotation in quotation marks. giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation. changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.

Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement. Plagiarism may be intentional or reckless, or unintentional.