Plagiarism

Plagiarism is derived from the Latin term for kidnapping.

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.

It is plagiarism when you:

buy or use an essay or assignment written by someone else
cut and paste messages 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
use the words, numerical data, programming language or ideas of another person without citing them
paraphrase words, statistics or programming languages without citing them