What things are considered as plagiarism on Quora?
Are there sections that are directly copied and pasted from other sections and presented as the author’s original work?Is there even one sentence which is reworded/paraphrased from another source AND a no parenthetical citation assigns credit to the original source?Is the theme/context taken from another source (i.e. not the assigned topic, for instance), and the source is not given credit?These constitute plagiarism. It’s one thing if you have two words back-to-back that are identically placed in another work or works. Cooncidence notwithstanding, doing any of the three things I listed is knowingly plagiarizing.For a more in-depth explanation of plagiarism, check the following resource.Avoiding PlagiarismI have always referred students to this in the past.
If you reword an essay is it considered plagiarism?
Let's say you find a 4- paragraph essay that says, basically, Boys are stinky because (a) they don't bathe often (b) they get sweaty when they do sports, and (c) they are rude. And you think it's a good essay so you change the words but your basic thesis is Boys are stinky because (a) they don't bathe often (b) they get sweaty when they do sports, and (c) they are rude. Yes, that is plagiarism because you took that person's ideas and didn't do your own thinking. You just took their ideas. Writing an essay means you have to do your own thinking. And you can use somebody else's ideas to support your ideas, if you credit the person for those ideas. But you can't take the whole essay and just reword it because you didn't do the thinking. You might like the point that person made about stinky sports, so you can use that part. But you can't take the exact same 3 reasons for your own essay.
How many words can you copy before it is considered plagiarism?
If you copy any words without citing a source, then it's plagiarism. You can paraphrase a source (rewrite it with your own words), or you can quote directly (correctly using quotation marks), but you always have to cite the source. When you're paraphrasing, if two or three words are the same, you're probably not going to be cited for plagiarism, but if you paraphrase a source and fail to cite it, even though you used your own words, it's still plagiarism.
Is it considered plagiarism if you copy a sentece word for word, but making a bibliography? If so how?
Yes, it is most definitely plagiarism. Regardless of creating a bibliography, if you did not include the copied text in quotations and include footnotes to explicitly reference your source, the original author could argue that you intended to pass off their work as your own. It is unfortunate that your school wants to kick you out of a program that has clearly made an impact on your life, but a simple check of a dictionary definition of "plagiarism" would have told you your actions are academically unacceptable. Good luck with the school, and next time, try taking notes on research, including online research, and then writing the paper from your notes, that way you can't possibly directly copy the source material.
Is copying one line considered plagiarism?
I'm not sure what education level your at, but at my college that would be fine. Virtually unnoticeable. As long as you changed most the basic nouns and adjectives to some synonyms that mean the same thing. Sometimes I do what you did. If your really worried, you can sign up for an account at turnitin.com. You submit your paper and a few minutes later it will tell you what percentage is plagiarism, what lines are plagiarism, and the exact websites or published articles you got the information from. We had to use that website for each paper in my pysch class... Uhh. But I did learn that if you change the order in which the words of the sentence are said, that would not be detected as plagiarism on this website. You should have just cited it if you weren't able to change virtually all the words. Don't worry too much bout it. Good luck
How many words in considered four pages?
Depends on the length of the words and line breaks. Single spaced you'll get at least 400 words per page. If you are trying to lengthen a page make sure you are not using contractions or the word "it". You may also want to use several short paragraphs instead of long ones. Think less about the number of words and more about over explaining the arguments.
Is imitation considered plagiarism?
For instance, if I decided to write a poem that follows the same pattern as say Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and I ended the poem with the same two lines "And miles to go before I sleep," and changed other lines to match my poem but came up with most of the other lines to match my idea of stopping by let's say another place (and not just change a few words), would that be plagiarism?
Is using two words plagiarism?
Personally, I believe it shouldn't. If you want to use a exact sentence, put it in quotes and in parenthesis cite where you got the information. I copied and pasted this from http://www.cgu.edu/pages/241.asp : "Q. What constitutes plagiarism? A. Two or more words taken from a source without quotation marks." I am guessing that if you cite the source it is as good as quotes, so as long as you cited the source it shouldn't be plagiarism. Just to help you: Tips for avoiding plagiarism: Cite every piece of information that is not a) the result of your own research, or b) common knowledge. This includes opinions, arguments, and speculations as well as facts, details, figures, and statistics. Use quotation marks every time you use the author's words. (For longer quotes, indenting the whole quotation has the same effect as quotation marks.) At the beginning of the first sentence in which you quote, paraphrase, or summarize, make it clear that what comes next is someone else's idea: According to Smith... Jones says... In his 1987 study, Robinson proved... At the end of the last sentence containing quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material, insert a parenthetical citation to show where the material came from: The St. Martin's Handbook defines plagiarism as "the use of someone else's words or ideas as [the writer's] own without crediting the other person" (Lunsford and Connors 602). (Notice the use of brackets to mark a change in the wording of the original.)
Why is paraphrasing considered plagiarism?
Paraphrasing itself is not automatically plagiarism; in fact, it’s often a recognized (and even recommended) way to avoid plagiarism. The issue is whether you’ve properly acknowledged and credited the source of the words and ideas you’ve used.After all, plagiarism is taking someone else’s words and ideas and passing them off as if they were your own. To do research well, you consider multiple viewpoints and perspectives and assess their relative merit by comparing, contrasting, evaluating, and synthesizing them…and to do that, you’ll have to acknowledge the sources of the ideas and give each contributor their due credit.Limited quotes can be helpful, especially if the way the source said it is essential, memorable, or superbly insightful. But quotes should be used sparingly, so most of the time you’ll paraphrase the contributions of others because the point is that you’re explaining those ideas and assessing their relative merits in your own words.If you paraphrase sloppily (or worse, fail to cite the source altogether), then yes, it’s certainly plagiarism. A poorly done paraphrase can still come across as plagiarism if it reads as if they were your words but in reality they were somebody else’s words or ideas (this happens when you’ve just done a minimal rewrite and only changed a few key words and only nominally credited the source). If the wording you end up with sounds like it came from you but it wasn’t, you’re still passing their ideas off as your own.Bottom Line: It needs to be abundantly clear to the reader exactly what words and ideas came from another source and what words and ideas are your own. If it’s not, you’re bordering on plagiarism - not because you’re paraphrasing, but because you haven’t differentiated what insights or wordings came from other sources.