Are Any of These Plagiarism?

• asking your parent or a friend to suggest changes or corrections in your written essay
• asking your parent or a friend to rewrite your essay, making all the changes or corrections for you
• asking your parents or a friend to help you search the Internet for information for a report
• asking your parents or a friend to search the Internet for you for the information you need
• reading someone else's term paper and then writing your own using some of the ideas and copying part or all of his bibliography
• listing books in your bibliography that you haven't read
• brainstorming an assignment with other students and then each writing your own essay
• taking a report or term paper you wrote for one class and rewriting it for another class
• taking a report or term paper your wrote for one class and handing it in for another class without rewriting it
• copying sentences or paragraphs from the encyclopedia for your report without using quotation marks or footnotes
• writing a report as a group and then each person writing a report that is just a little bit different to hand in
• copying a report or term paper from the Internet and editing it to be "yours"
• copying a report or term paper from the Internet and handing it in without any changes
• hiring a tutor to help you learn to write better
• hiring a tutor to rewrite your papers for you
• paying another person, or an editing service, to write your term paper

Reprinted with permission from Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call by Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss.  Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.