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Plagiarism

Gen 300 Skills for Professional Development
December 7, 2007

Definition of Plagiarism:
It is every student’s duty to know and understand the definition of plagiarism. This paragraph will define plagiarism and give some examples of how students plagiarize. The definition of plagiarism according to the American Heritage New Dictionary of cultural Literacy, Third Edition is: “Literary theft. Plagiarism occurs when a writer duplicates another writer's language or ideas and then calls the work his or her own. Copyright laws protect writers' words as their legal property. To avoid the charge of plagiarism, writers take care to credit those from whom they borrow and quote” (American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition, n.d.). Plagiarism comes in many different forms. You are plagiarizing when you turn in someone else’s work as your own or fail to use quotations when quoting someone. Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving......


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