Timeline for Is changing some words plagiarism?
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| Jan 11, 2022 at 10:54 | comment | added | Gábor | You changed a very important word when quoting that definition: "Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own." Not using but presenting as your own. This is paramount. There are many ways to use other people's ideas, work and research and most of them are not only OK but very desirable. Presenting as if it was your own is the problem. | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 9:53 | comment | added | Tvde1 | Relativity was not my idea, but when I talk or write about it, I do not want to keep having to cite the many men that made it possible. | |
| Jan 11, 2022 at 9:16 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | @DanielHatton that's precisely why this concise answer is so important. What the students seem to be worried about is not so much what plagiarism is but what gets them caught. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 14:49 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | Admittedly, the linked page says "work or ideas" -- not just ideas alone. The first two bullet-point cases under Forms of Plagiarism are (1) "Verbatim (word for word) quotation...", and (2) "Cutting and pasting from the Internet..." This is the same priority seen in my institution's policy, too. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 10:14 | comment | added | user128581 | Formally correct, but note that a student accused of plagiarizing the underlying ideas can deploy the "common knowledge" defence, whereas a student accused of plagiarizing the particular wording can't. | |
| Jan 10, 2022 at 8:40 | history | edited | Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fixed typos
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| Jan 10, 2022 at 6:55 | history | answered | Sursula | CC BY-SA 4.0 |