{"id":675,"date":"2018-01-10T20:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=675"},"modified":"2021-08-09T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:25:33","slug":"csu-plagiarism-policy","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/chapter\/csu-plagiarism-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"11.5 Plagiarism Policy"},"content":{"raw":"Plagiarism is something that many people understand to be a bad thing, but few people truly understand. Plagiarism can be intentional (such as copying and pasting large chunks of a website into your paper), or it can be unintentional (such as a weak paraphrase or a lack of reference to authors or sources). But plagiarism is plagiarism, whether it is intentional or not, and it is a serious offense in academic writing.\r\n\r\nIt can be helpful to understand what plagiarism is if you seek to avoid plagiarizing in your own papers. This video offers a thorough explanation of how one might plagiarize if he or she is not carefully integrating sources into an essay.\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EF5eFeJMplA[\/embed]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EF5eFeJMplA\">\u201c10 Types of Plagiarism\u201d<\/a> by\u00a0 WriteCheckVideos\r\n\r\nFollowing the guidelines for the ethical use of source materials in your papers can help you to avoid plagiarism in your work. Plagiarism is a serious offense and colleges take instances of plagiarism very seriously.\r\n\r\nIf you are struggling to figure out how to cite a source or how to integrate it into your work while giving your author(s) proper credit, you can\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>ask for your instructor<\/li>\r\n \t<li>visit the <span style=\"color: #008000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csuohio.edu\/writing-center\/writing-center\" style=\"color: #008000\">Writing Center\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li>set up a meeting with a<span style=\"color: #008000\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/askalibrarian.csuohio.edu\/\" style=\"color: #008000\">university librarian\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nEach school has a plagiarism policy that both defines what plagiarism is and outlines the consequences that will arise in the event that a student is caught plagiarizing.\r\n\r\nHere is the Cleveland State University policy:\u00a0[pdf-embedder url=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/Cleveland-State-University-policy-on-academic-misconduct-1.pdf\" title=\"Cleveland State University policy on academic misconduct\"]","rendered":"<p>Plagiarism is something that many people understand to be a bad thing, but few people truly understand. Plagiarism can be intentional (such as copying and pasting large chunks of a website into your paper), or it can be unintentional (such as a weak paraphrase or a lack of reference to authors or sources). But plagiarism is plagiarism, whether it is intentional or not, and it is a serious offense in academic writing.<\/p>\n<p>It can be helpful to understand what plagiarism is if you seek to avoid plagiarizing in your own papers. This video offers a thorough explanation of how one might plagiarize if he or she is not carefully integrating sources into an essay.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"10 Types of Plagiarism\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EF5eFeJMplA?feature=oembed&#38;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EF5eFeJMplA\">\u201c10 Types of Plagiarism\u201d<\/a> by\u00a0 WriteCheckVideos<\/p>\n<p>Following the guidelines for the ethical use of source materials in your papers can help you to avoid plagiarism in your work. Plagiarism is a serious offense and colleges take instances of plagiarism very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>If you are struggling to figure out how to cite a source or how to integrate it into your work while giving your author(s) proper credit, you can<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ask for your instructor<\/li>\n<li>visit the <span style=\"color: #008000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csuohio.edu\/writing-center\/writing-center\" style=\"color: #008000\">Writing Center\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>set up a meeting with a<span style=\"color: #008000\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/askalibrarian.csuohio.edu\/\" style=\"color: #008000\">university librarian\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each school has a plagiarism policy that both defines what plagiarism is and outlines the consequences that will arise in the event that a student is caught plagiarizing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Cleveland State University policy:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2018\/01\/Cleveland-State-University-policy-on-academic-misconduct-1.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Cleveland State University policy on academic misconduct<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-675","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":72,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/675\/revisions\/1663"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/72"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/675\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/csu-fyw-rhetoric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}