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Anti-Plagiarism and Academic Integrity: Types of Plagiarism

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Common Types of Plagiarism

Common types of Plagiarism include:

Copy-and-paste plagiarism: also known as direct plagiarism, means copying a passage from a source without a citation

Mosaic plagiarism: means using various phrases, passages and ideas from different sources to create a kind of “mosaic” or “patchwork” of other researchers’ work, without proper citations.

Self-plagiarism: means reusing parts of your own previous work like submitting the same paper to a different class or recycling a dataset) without acknowledging this.

Global plagiarism: Global plagiarism means submitting an entire work written by someone else. That includes having a friend write your paper for you or buying an essay from an online essay mill.