“Plagiarism” occurs when a student, with intent to deceive or with disregard for proper scholarly procedures, presents any information, ideas, or phrasing of another as if they were the student’s own and/or does not give appropriate credit to the original source. Proper scholarly procedures require that all quoted material be identified by quotation marks or indentation on the page, and the source of information and ideas, if from another, must be identified and be attributed to that source. Students are responsible for learning proper scholarly procedures.
Here are some examples of plagiarism:
Copying and pasting text without citation – Using someone else’s words verbatim without giving credit.
Paraphrasing without acknowledgment – Rewriting someone else’s ideas in your own words but failing to cite the source.
Self-plagiarism – Reusing your own previously submitted work without permission or proper disclosure.
Using AI-generated content without attribution (if disallowed) – Submitting machine-generated text as your own without following institutional guidelines.
Citing incorrect or fabricated sources – Making up sources or misrepresenting where information came from.
For a full outline on plagiarism and academic dishonesty, please refer to the Duke Community Standard.
