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What is plagiarism?
Deliberate plagiarism
- Rewriting from books or articles
- Copying & pasting from web pages and online sources to create a patchwork writing
- Buying, downloading, or borrowing a paper
Accidental plagiarism
- Not knowing when & how to cite
- Not knowing how to paraphrase or summarize
- Not knowing what “common knowledge” is
- Recycling an old paper
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