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 Plagiarism is a serious breach of ethics at UNSW and it is not taken lightly.
The idea of research is to study what others have published and form your own opinions. When you quote people - or even when you summarise or paraphrase information found in books, articles or Web pages - you must acknowledge the original author. |
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buy or use an essay or assignment written by someone else |
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cut and paste information from the Web, a book or article and insert them into your paper without citing them - WARNING! It is now easy for your lecturer to use text from your essay and find passages that have been copied from the Web and other sources |
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use the words, numerical data, programming language or ideas of another person without citing them |
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paraphrase words, statistics or programming languages without citing them |
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Plagiarism? It's Your Call!
Plagiarism ranges from copying word-for-word to paraphrasing a passage without credit and changing only a few words. Below is a sentence from a book. The original source is followed by its use in three student papers. For each student's version check the comments to see if the passage would be considered plagiarism. |
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Original passage from book
Still, the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before.1 |
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1 (Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, page 390. 2 Excerpt, examples, and commentary below are from James M. McCrimmon, Writing With A Purpose, page 499.) |
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The telephone was a convenience, enabling Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before.
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| Brian |
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Daniel J. Boorstin argues that the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before.
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Daniel J. Boorstin has noted that most Americans considered the telephone as simply "a convenience," an instrument that allowed them "to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before."2
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