Plagiarism is using someone else's words, ideas, or work, and claiming that it is your own or failing to give them proper credit.
Intentional Plagiarism: Taking credit for someone's work, when you understand that what you're doing is wrong
- Using a paper from the internet
- Copying someone else's paper
- Copying large amounts of someone else's work and putting it into your text.
- Self-Plagiarism: Reusing your own work in a different context
- Using a paper that you've already written for a different course
- Using large parts of another one of your papers without your professor's permission
Unintentional Plagiarism: Not giving someone else credit for their work, even if you didn't understand that what you're doing is wrong
- Not properly citing your sources: either in your paper, or in your Works Cited page
- Paraphrasing a work with language that is too close to the original
- Not citing a class discussion or discussion with a classmate because you didn't realize that you needed to
