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Plagiarism Notice

Plagiarism Notice

 

 

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What is Plagiarism?

 

 

Plagiarism is simply using someone's work and not acknowledging or giving credit to the original author(s).



I am plagiarizing if I:

  • Intentionally duplicate or copy another person's work including copying directly from an article, book, or website
  • Copy another student's assignment(s)
  • Paraphrase another person's work, while making only minor changes and not changing the meaning or ideas presented by the original author(s)
  • Copy sections of another person's work and piece these sections together to create a new whole
  • Turn in an assignment that has been previously submitted for assessment and then take credit for the assignment
  • Turn in an assignment as independent work when the assignment was produced in whole or part in collusion with another student(s), tutor(s), or person(s)

 

Take the Plagiarism Quiz to see how much you know about plagiarism.

 

Practice Paraphrasing: Exercise

Created by Kristin LaVoie, Research & Instruction Librarian CT State - Manchester

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Plagiarism: In-Class Activity

Original Text

Paraphrased Text

"Every person has a unique scent profile made up of different chemical compounds, and the researchers found that mosquitoes were most drawn to people whose skin produces high levels of carboxylic acids.

Additionally, the researchers found that peoples' attractiveness to mosquitoes remained steady over time, regardless of changes in diet or grooming habits."

Source: Leonard, Daniel. "Some People Really Are Mosquito Magnets, and They're Stuck That Way." Scientific American, https://www.scientifica merican.com/article/some-people-really­ are-mosquito-magnets-and-theyre-stuck-that-way/. Accessed 21

Oct. 2022.

"...the World Health Organization (WHO) added "gaming disorder" to its list of psychological conditions, saying the term applies to people who make gaming a higher priority than "other life interests and daily activities" and continue to play despite "significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning."

Source: Marshall, Patrick. "Esports Boom." CQ Researcher, 4 Jan. 2019, pp. 1-25,

Iibrary.cqpress.com/cq researcher/cqresrre2019010400.

"U.S. Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt courted controversy when in 1939 he served hot dogs to a visiting king, George VI of Britain.

Although some commentators criticized the dish as embarrassingly plebeian, the king asked for a second hot dog after finishing the first."

Source: "Hot dog." Britannica Academic, Encyclop dia Britannica, 12 Oct. 2022. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/hot­

dog/635427. Accessed 21 Oct. 2022.

 

"A particularly persistent and contagious strain carried by migrating birds has killed at least 3.6 percent of the nation's turkeys, or about 7.3 million birds, so far this year, according to figures from the Department of Agriculture and Watt Global Media, which monitors the poultry business."

Source: Severson, Kim. "Turkeys Will Be Scarcer and Pricier Than Ever This Thanksgiving." The New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022.

NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/dining/thanksgiving- turkeys-cost-inflation-supply-chain.html.

"Colombia has posted a sharp rise in coca cultivation, the United Nations said on Thursday, raising concerns among U.S. antinarcotics officials about how the country's new government will bring drug trafficking under control. The U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime said the amount of land used to grow coca-the main ingredient in cocaine-had expanded 43% from 2020 to 2021 to 504,000 acres spread out across several rural states."

Source: Forero, Juan. "Colombia's Acreage of Coca, Used to Make Cocaine, Surges to Record." WSJ, https://www.wsj.com/articles/colombias-acreage-of-coca-used-to- make-cocaine-surges-to-record-11666306614. Accessed 21 Oct.

2022.