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Plagiarism: Example #3

What's considered Plagiarism

  1. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
    • Example: Jayce writes down what a researcher says in an article but does not put quotation marks around the quote or cite where the quote came from.

 

Even one phrase

highlighted text in article to be used in student paper 

 Braasch, G. (2013). Climate change: Is seeing believing?. Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists69(6), 33-41. doi:10.1177/0096340213508628

Description

The image bottom left is a section of the article Jayce used with the quote highlighted. 

The image bottom right is how Jayce used the quote in the paper. 

Jayce did not put quotation marks around the quote nor did Jayce cite the quote in the paper.

The quote now looks like Jayce wrote it. This is considered STEALING, and therefore is plagiarism.

Jeffrey's paper

highlighted text in student paper copied from article without citation