Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, the use by paraphrase or direct quotation, the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment; unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in selling or otherwise providing term papers or other academic materials; and commercialization sale or distribution of class notes without the instructors' permission. (SCSU Student Handbook Prohibited Conduct)

 

Automatic failure of the Research Paper

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1.     There are no internal citations within the paper.

2.     Student has downloaded, copied, or bought a paper from someone else and turned it in as his/her own work.

3.     Student has copied an entire article from a website or electronic database and turned it in as his/her paper.

4.     Student has cut and pasted from several works and called the product his/her own work.

5.     Student has faked citations.

6.     Student has citations within the paper that do not match any on the works cited page.

7.     The student has rearranged the author’s original words (this is not paraphrasing because the student did not put the original words in his or her own words—just merely rearranged them.  Example:  Because the government has overspent, schools are poorly funded.  Student’s Words:  Schools are poorly funded because the government overspends.)

8.     Using the author’s original words but changing the adjectives—this is still plagiarism—the student is using the author’s words but only changing one or two and calling the words his/her own.

9.     Failing to put quotation marks around directly quoted material.

10.  Placing quotation marks around directly quoted material and ending the quotation prematurely.  (Continuing to copy from the source word for word without putting the rest of the quote in quotation marks.)

11.  Sources on the reference page are not used within the paper

12.  Sources used within the paper are not on the reference page