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I personally feel that the definition that Indiana University uses is an excellent one and covers all bases, so I have copied it below from their website at http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/definition.html You will notice that there is no distinction made between plagiarizing from a printed paper or from the internet. Whatever form the original work is in, if a student takes credit for work that someone else did, or takes ideas from work done by another without acknowledging the source of the ideas, from my point of view, this is plagiarism. 3. Plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work, including the work of other students, as one's own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered "common knowledge" may differ from course to course. a. A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of another person without acknowledgment. b. A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge an indebtedness whenever: 1. Directly quoting another person's actual words, whether oral or written; 2. Using another person's ideas, opinions, or theories; 3. Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written; 4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material; or 5. Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgment. You might want to visit the following IU websites for more about plagiarism. http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml http://www.indiana.edu/~istd/ This email message dictated to a Dragon in training I am training Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive minor, odd errors and anomalies. Elizabeth Worden, Director Academic Support Center Eastern Maine Community College 354 Hogan Road Bangor, ME 04401 phone: 207 974 4658 fax: 207 974 4888 website: www.emcc.edu/departments/asc/ -----Original Message----- From: Open Forum for Learning Assistance Professionals [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lisa Burns Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:44 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: avoiding plaigarism Dear Colleagues, I am currently looking for ideas and activities to help introduce the concept of citation and avoiding plagarism for our growing exchange program with China. It has been brought to my attention that the idea of intellectual property is a Western notion and that plagarism is not taboo in China as it is in the States. Does anyone have any suggestions or current practices/activites that they have found helpful when working with ESL students? Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Lisa Burns, x2393 Tutor Coordinator 155 Greenwood Library Longwood University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask]