Plagiarism is defined as copying or paraphrasing another person's work and presenting it as one's own, whether intentionally or through failure to take proper care. Plagiarism is a form of cheating and is not acceptable. Not only is it unethical, it is illegal to submit someone else's work as your own. Penalties for plagiarism at Central Institute of Technology range from students having to resubmit work with correct citations to being suspended.
Examples of plagiarism include:
Examples of plagiarism include:
- When blocks of text are copied and placed in an assignment without an appropriate citation and without using quotation marks.
- Summarising or paraphrasing ideas from someone else’s work and failing to acknowledge where they came from.
- Using facts, statistics, tables, graphs and illustrations without acknowledging the source.
- Using information from a website, online database or other electronic source without a proper citation.
