Psychology Scientific Journal Article Critique

Plagiarism Plagiarism is a serious form of cheating. To plagiarize is to claim another’s ideas or writing as one’s own. It

is a form of stealing. The penalty for plagiarism may result in an automatic zero! Use your own words with

citations!

Plagiarism takes several forms.

 Students plagiarize when they borrow ideas from other writers without giving them credit (i.e. use a

fact without a citation). In this case, students might not even use the other writer’s language;

nevertheless, they are stealing the writer’s content.

 Using the author’s sentence and changing two or three words (using a thesaurus) still constitutes

plagiarism.

 Students also plagiarize when they present another student’s work (or the work of a professional

paper writing service, or work copied from a Web Site) as their own.

Documentation involves more than just citing the source of direct quotations.

Because plagiarism is such a complex concept to come to grips with in its entirety, take note of the

following summary definitions:

1. Plagiarism includes the literal repetition without acknowledgement of the writings of another author. All

significant words, phrases, clauses or passages in a student’s paper which have been taken directly

from the source material must be enclosed in quotation marks and acknowledged either in the text

itself.

2. The use of the Thesaurus to replace key words is still plagiarism and will be treated as such.

3. Plagiarism includes borrowing, without acknowledgement, another writer’s general plan, outline, or

structure.

4. Plagiarism includes borrowing another’s ideas and representing them as one’s own (not citing). To

paraphrase the thoughts of another writer without acknowledging is to plagiarize.

5. Plagiarism includes allowing any other person or organization (including those found on the internet) to

prepare the paper and submitting it as one’s own work.

Turn It In will detect all forms of plagiarism.

Plagiarism in the course will not be tolerated. Penalties for plagiarism include, but are not limited to, failure

of the assignment, failure in the course, suspension from the college, and permanent expulsion from the

college. For more information, consult the San Jacinto College Student Handbook section on “Academic

Honesty.”

See these links for examples and consequences of Plagiarism…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTPv9PtOoo

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/plagiarism/

See this website to learn how to correctly cite information and avoid Plagiarism

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

See this link to read San Jac’s policy on Cheating and Plagiarism…

http://www.sanjac.edu/about-san-jac/college-operations/policies-and-procedures/procedure-6-4-b-cheating-

and-plagiarism