The most often observed form of academic dishonesty is plagiarism. Plagiarism is adoption or incorporation of another’s ideas without proper attribution of source. It is more simply explained as taking writings of another person or people and representing them to be one’s own.
Considering this definition of plagiarism, is passage below from student paper, concerning AMU plagiarism policy, an example of plagiarism?
Simple definition of plagiarism is taking writings of another person and adopting or incorporating their ideas without proper source attribution.
a. Yes, as this passage is a direct quote without the use of quotation marks.
b. Yes, as this passage is a simple rearragment of the author’s words
c. No, as this passage is a paraphrase of the author’s words
d. No, as this passage has been correctly cited
