Running head: PLAGIARISM 1
Recognizing Plagiarism
Brittany Kirkland
Ivy Tech Community College
PLAGIARISM 2
Recognizing Plagiarism
Students have been taught all throughout their academic careers about plagiarism.
However, plagiarism occurs often commonly due to misunderstanding. Unintentional plagiarism
is still considered plagiary! There are many ways to avoid plagiarizing material including:
paraphrasing, correct citation, and referencing. The purpose of this paper is to show others how
easily plagiarism can occur and how it can be avoided.
After reading the two passages, I detected that the student’s passage contained both word-
for-word plagiarism and paraphrasing plagiarism. To be considered word-for-word plagiarism a
passage must meet the following criteria: takes seven or more words in sequence from original
source material, lack the use of quotations, full in-text citation, or bibliographic reference
Commented [NJJ1]: Well written introduction
