Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the unauthorized use of someone else's work. Words, ideas, charts and pictures are all considered the creator's intellectual property and may not be legally reproduced or reused by another person unless that person acknowledges the creator by citing the source of the material.

Although the most obvious, copying someone else's exact words is not the only type of plagiarism. Using a similar sentence structure to the original source, rearranging the words in the original sentence or replacing some of the words with synonyms still constitutes plagiarism. If a paragraph, sentence or phrase contains more borrowed than original content and does not properly cite the source from which it was taken, it has been plagiarized.Plagiarism.org: Plagiarism Learning Center

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