What is plagiarism?
The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as "the action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own."
Oxford University Press. (n.d.).Plagiarism. In Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved September 16, 2022, from https://www.oed.com/
Grove City College's Policy
According to the Bulletin, Grove City College is deeply invested in upholding academic integrity and honesty. Three of the college’s five core values, faithfulness, excellence, and community, directly relate to academic integrity because any violation of academic integrity is a form of theft and deceit that affects the one stolen from, as well as the community of students and faculty at the college. In addition, cheating is a violation of three of the Ten Commandments: the prohibitions against stealing, lying, and coveting.
The College reminds students that plagiarism includes the following:
- Any direct quotation of another’s words, from simple phrasing to longer passages, without using quotation marks and properly citing the source of those words.
- Any summary or paraphrase of another’s ideas without properly citing the source of those ideas.
- Any information that is not common knowledge—including facts, statistics, graphics, drawings—without proper citation of sources.
- Any cutting and pasting of verbal or graphic materials from another source and representing as one’s own work—including books, databases, web sites, journals, newspapers, etc.—without the proper citation for each of the sources of those materials; this includes any copyrighted artwork, graphics, or photography downloaded from the Internet without proper citation.
- Any wholesale “borrowing,” theft, or purchasing of another’s work and presenting it as one’s own, whether from the Internet or from another source.
- Any presentation of “ghost-written” work including—whether paid for or not—as one’s own original work, including papers, computer code, visual artwork, and other forms of written and non-written work.
- Making one’s work available for copying by others, as well as copying work posted on the Internet or otherwise made available by another.
- Self-citation: you cannot submit the same work for two different classes. If you use part of an earlier work, or ideas from an earlier work, you should reference it, as with any other source.
Text reprinted from:
Grove City College. Bulletin. 2021-22 ed., Grove City College, 2021, pp.58-59.
