I found this article from UNSW-learning centre. To my students who are going to start and design their final research this year, you need to read this carefully !
Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of others and presenting them as your own. Plagiarism is a
type of intellectual theft. It can take many forms, from deliberate cheating to accidentally copying from
a source without acknowledgement.
Whenever you use the words or ideas of another person in your work, you must acknowledge where
they came from. You can avoid plagiarism by following the suggestions outlined in this guide.
Common Form of plagiarism :
• Downloading an assignment from an online source and submitting it as your own work.
• Buying, stealing or borrowing an assignment and submitting it as your own work.
• Copying, cutting and pasting text from an electronic source and submitting it as your own work.
• Using the words of someone else and presenting them as your own.
Copying a section of a book or an article and submitting it as your own work (that is, without acknowledgement) is plagiarism.
• Using significant ideas from someone else and presenting them as your own
• Copying the written expressions of someone else without proper acknowledgment.
Quoting from a source ‘word for word’, without using quotation marks is plagiarism. Lifting sentences or
paragraphs from someone else, even with proper acknowledgment, gives the impression that the idea or
information comes from the source cited, but that the phrasing, the choice of words to express it, is your own contribution
• Relying too much on other people’s material
