Accidental plagiarism

Paraphrasing without crediting the original author is considered plagiarism and therefore has serious consequences. However, if you do credit the original author correctly using an in-text citation or footnote citation and include the full source in the reference list, then you do not commit plagiarism.

All of the following are considered plagiarism: turning in someone else’s work as your own. 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.

Students who plagiarize or otherwise engage in academic dishonesty face serious consequences. Sanctions may include, but are not limited to, failure on an assignment, grade reduction or course failure, suspension, and possibly dismissal.

Unintentional plagiarism is not giving proper credit for someone else’s ideas, research, or words, even if it was not intentional to present them as your own. Even if it was not intentional, it is still plagiarism and not acceptable. Accidentally failing to cite your sources correctly.

Plagiarism generally involves using other people’s words or ideas without proper citation, but you can also plagiarize yourself. Self-plagiarism means reusing work that you have already published or submitted for a class. Self-plagiarism misleads your readers by presenting old work as completely new and original.

Turnitin finds false-positives A team from Texas Tech University conducted a similar experiment to that of Schorn and found questionable results. Turnitin marked 152 papers as having between 11% and 25% unoriginal text, while SafeAssign found only 55 documents in this category.

Papers in the Turnitin database are easily accessible by others so privacy is not protected. Reality: Papers are secure from prying eyes. No one can go into the student database.