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PLAGIARISM INFORMATION FORM Copying passages from a website counts as plagiarism even if you reword them. You will be penalized for plagiarism even if you had no intention to plagiarize, even if the plagiarism appears only in the opening section of the paper, even if the plagiarism results from submitting the “wrong version” of the paper, and even if the plagiarism was the result of inadvertently memorizing and reproducing the wording from a website. Being charged with plagiarism or other academic infractions may seriously jeopardize your applications to law schools, business schools, and graduate schools. Excerpt from the UCSB Student Conduct Code (SW, 101.00) Any work (written or otherwise) submitted to fulfill an academic requirement must represent a student’s original work. Any act of academic dishonesty, such as cheating or plagiarism, will subject a person to University disciplinary action. Cheating includes, but is not limited to, looking at another student’s examination, referring to unauthorized notes during an exam, providing answers, having another person take an exam for you, etc. Representing the words, ideas, or concepts of another person without appropriate attribution is plagiarism. Whenever another person’s written work is utilized, whether it be a single phrase or longer, quotation marks must be used and sources cited. Paraphrasing another’s work, i.e., borrowing the ideas or concepts and putting them into one’s “own” words, must also be acknowledged. Although a person’s state of mind and intention will be considered in determining the University response to an act of academic dishonesty, this in no way lessens the responsibility of the student. Paraphrase

Paraphrasing a source without citing it will also be treated as plagiarism. Here are some examples of paraphrase: Student: In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume explores the basic

fundamentals of religious belief, and whether they can be rational. Website: In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume explores whether religious belief

can be rational. Student: He excels in using the reference of FLO (future like ours) because it is reasonable

to use emotional attachment in comparing the life of a fetus to that of the life that we experience and live out.

Website: Marquis is highly persuasive using this FLO method because he uses emotional attachment comparing the life of a fetus to a life that we may experience.

Student: It is meaningless to assume an analogy between one part of the universe and the

whole universe. Website: It makes no sense to assume that one part of the universe is analogous to the whole

of the universe.

Case studies: Student Responses to Charges of Plagiarism Charge: One sentence copied and reworded from an online source. Student response: I did read that passage from that web page along with a bunch of other articles, but before I even started writing my paper I exited out of all my web pages and that was just in my head still. i happened to word it similar to beebe's website. I truly don't believe I plagiarized. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: One paragraph was copied and reworded from an online source. Student response: The Schrödinger's cat experiment can be confusing to understand, so after doing some brief research there was only so many ways I can describe this experiment. I simply only took reference "describing" what the experiment is to give the reader a background. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Several passages were copied from Wikipedia and reworded. Student response: I simply used those four sentences to get a better understanding of the subject that I was writing about. The majority of that section, and the other two sections are all me! In no way did I attempt to pass these ideas off as my own. I believed that since I copied things that were facts, that wasn't plagiarism because facts can not be plagiarised, only claiming that those ideas were yours is. I do admit that it was really stupid of me to use those four sentences verbatim. However I felt like by touching them or changing them they could lose their meaning. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Several passages were copied from a website and reworded. Student response: I must have submitted the wrong paper. I have two copies. Is it okay if I send you the other one? I am so sorry for the confusion and inconvenience. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Extensive plagiarism from two different websites. Student response: I looked at the websites, and I tried to take care not to use them word for word, but after reading them, I internalized the ideas and it helped me understand the argument so much better that I unintentionally used the same language, without realizing it. My blatant disregard for putting it into my own words is clear now, and I apologize dearly for that, but I didn't intend to copy them word for word, I simply meant to highlight the arguments. Most of the ideas I simply saw and they stuck in my head so effectively that I inadvertently used them as my own. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment

Charge: Several passages copied from a student paper from a previous semester. Student response: I was tutored by [that student] in writing my paper. I met with her and she helped me form an outline as to what to make my closing arguments. I did not mean to copy her ideas. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Several passages copied and reworded from an online source. Student response: When I went online and compared the website to the text, I thought the website was the same exact information as the text. So, when I was writing this paper, I assumed it was alright to use these ideas from the online website to incorporate into my paper because I truly believed that this information was no different than the original text that we should use. I did not think I was taking someone else's work and publishing it as my own. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Four sentences copied and reworded from an online source. Student response: I did look at that website, but not until after I had finished writing my paper, and I didn’t copy and reword those sentences. The similarities between the sentences are only because there are so few ways of explaining the argument at issue in her paper. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Extensive plagiarism from a website Student response: I do not necessarily think it's fair to say it was extensive plagiarism, as the argument from the source was very similar to one we discussed in class, and it was only about one paragraph in my paper out of four pages where I expressed my opinion on it. I should have put quotes around things that were similar to the source, and I also should have stated the source. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Large portions of a graded draft of the paper were directly copied from a website Student response: I did extract some paragraphs directly form online, This is because first draft paper is just a draft... And in the final paper, I would definitely will not use these sentences from online. I am not that stupid. I did not commit plagirism because I am going to use it as my own paper. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment Charge: Three sentences of a graded draft were copied from three different websites and reworded. Student response: I admit that the three sentences identified were not my original work. Because this was a rough draft, I did not take the time to remove the references, cite them or to rephrase the ideas into my own words. Decision: Upheld charge of plagiarism, failing grade on assignment