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Plagiarism: Example #4

What's considered Plagiarism

  1. Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
    • Example: Jada uses a quote properly in her text, but does not provide correct information in her reference for the quote. Now no one can find where she got it, or maybe she made up the quote to give credibility to her paper.

Section of Janice's paper

highlighted text in student paper that is cited properly
 

 

Description

The image below and to the left shows part of Jada's paper. The highlighted section is the quote she cites.

The image below and to the right is the reference Jada created for the quote. Jada's reference is incomplete and wrong. The reference below hers is the correct reference for the quote she cited.

 

Though this could simply be a mistake, it is still considered PLAGIARISM.

Correct VS. Incorrect References

shows incorrect reference