• "Plagiarism" stems from the Latin word "plaguarius" which means "kid-napper."

• "The act of taking another's intellectual property (spoken words, written words, artistic expressions) and passing them off as one's own. Plagiarism may be unintentional, but you will be held accountable for plagiarism whether or not you meant to plagiarize."

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• "Plagiarism is using another person's ideas or creative works without giving credit to that person.

It includes:

• paraphrasing information from a source without referencing the source • copying and pasting Internet information, graphics, or media into your work without citing the source • using someone else's homework or buying papers or research you did not do and turning it in as if you had done the work yourself. • not putting quotation marks around parts of sources you quote exactly

All of these are plagiarism when a citation for each source you used is not included in your paper, speech, project, etc."

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