Plagiarism Scenarios
Jordan adds an image from the internet to their presentation without saying where it came from.
What is plagiarism? (Images and media must be cited.)
This type of plagiarism involves turning in someone else's paper as your own, whether you paid for it or a friend gave it to you.
What is submitting another person's writing?
Students who violate HCCC's academic integrity policy are subject to this grade-level consequence.
What is a failing grade on the exam, project, or entire course?
You only need to cite sources if you use a direct quote.
Fiction. You must cite paraphrased and summarized ideas too.
Chris uses an AI tool to generate their entire essay and submits it without making any changes or adding their own ideas.
What is plagiarism / a violation of academic integrity? (Submitting AI-generated work as entirely your own is not allowed.)
Copying and pasting text from multiple sources without citing any of them is known by this name.
What is patchwriting?
A professor suspects a student has submitted plagiarized work. This is the first person they report it to before it may escalate further.
What is the Division Dean?
Lucas reads an article, fully rewrites the information in his own words, and includes a citation to the original article.
Fact. This is NOT plagiarism. Proper paraphrasing with citation is completely acceptable.
Sam rewrites a few sentences from an article by changing a couple of words but doesn't cite it.
What is plagiarism? (Patchwriting without citation is still plagiarism.)
Alex turns in an essay they wrote last semester for a brand new class without asking the professor.
What is self-plagiarism (submitting the same paper in more than one course)?
his person at HCCC works with faculty and division deans to adjudicate disciplinary cases involving academic dishonesty.
Who is the Associate Dean of Student Affairs?
Paraphrasing means changing a few words from the original sentence and leaving the rest the same
Fiction. True paraphrasing means fully rewriting the idea in your own words.
Mark includes a direct quote from a book but doesn't use quotation marks, even though he lists the source in his bibliography.
What is plagiarism? (A citation alone is not enough. Quotation marks are also required.)
Kevin asks a tutor to help him brainstorm ideas and give feedback on his essay. The tutor doesn't write any part of the paper.
What is tutoring/studying? This is not plagiarism. (Getting feedback and brainstorming help from a tutor is completely acceptable.)
In serious or repeated cases of academic integrity violations, a student may face a disciplinary hearing that could result in these two outcomes.
What are suspension and expulsion?
Summarizing a source and citing it at the end is an acceptable way to use it in your paper.
Fact. Summarizing with proper citation is a legitimate way to incorporate sources
Naomi copies paragraphs from multiple websites, changes a few sentences, and combines them into one essay, thinking multiple sources makes it okay.
What is plagiarism? (Using multiple sources does not excuse uncited copying.)
Jenna forgets to cite a source in her paper. She says it was an accident, but it is still considered this.
What is plagiarism? (Intent does not matter, failing to cite is still a violation.)
Taylor is caught cheating on an exam for the second time this semester. Because it is a repeated violation, their case is escalated beyond just a failing grade.
What is a disciplinary hearing with the Associate Dean of Student Affairs, which could result in suspension or expulsion?
If you properly cite all your sources, you can copy and paste as much text as you want without it being plagiarism
Fiction. Even with citations, reproducing large amounts of text without quotation marks is still plagiarism