Example: Jin finds a research article with two paragraphs that say exactly what she wants to say. She copies the paragraphs directly into her paper and lets her teacher think she wrote them.
This is considered STEALING. She is stealing the words of another person and portraying them as her own.
Example research article from which Jin took two large blocks of text:
Braasch, G. (2013). Climate change: Is seeing believing?. Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists, 69(6), 33-41. doi:10.1177/0096340213508628
The images below show a page from a 2013 article on climate change (left) and a paper written by Jin using two paragraphs in her paper from the article (right). The copied paragraphs are highlighted.
Jin does not properly cite the paragraphs. Instead, she includes the paragraphs as her own in her paper.
She steals them and is therefore plagiarizing.
Jin's paper uses the article's blocks of text instead of her own words:
Another way Jin could plagiarize is by writing her own sentences in between sentences in the paragraphs she copied.
The lines in yellow are the copied text.
