Examples of plagiarism:

• Buying or using a paper from a research service or term paper mill constitutes plagiarism. (example) Purchasing a paper from a site such as the one in the example constitutes plagiarism because the student is turning in a paper he or she did not research and write.

• Copying material without giving the source of information. The example shows a source that could be used in a paper about early use of paperback books in schools. Once you have read the example, click on the link in the popup box to show an example of this source being plagiarized. The words in red in the second example constitute plagiarism because they are exact quotes from the text without being enclosed in quotations and because no source was cited.

• Paraphrasing material without giving the source of information. The example shows the same source as above on paperback books. Once you have read the example, click on the link in the popup box to show an example of this source being plagiarized. This example constitutes plagiarism because the student only changed some of the words, but not the ideas and because the student did not cite a source for the ideas.

• Building on others' ideas without giving the source of information. The example shows the same source as above on paperback books. Once you have read the example, click on the link in the popup box to show an example of this source being plagiarized. This example constitutes plagiarism because the student uses the text as the basis for his/her ideas but does not cite the source.

• Turning in a paper written by someone else.The example shows a cover page of a research paper written by someone in 1998. Once you have read the example, click on the link in the popup box to show this same cover page being used by another student for another class. This example constitutes plagiarism because one student turned in a paper written by another student.