Plagiarism defined
"Dalhousie University defines plagiarism as the submission or presentation of the work of another as if it were one's own."
"Plagiarism is considered a serious academic offence which may lead to the assignment of a failing grade, suspension or expulsion from the University. If a penalty results in a student no longer meeting the requirements of a degree that has been awarded, the University may rescind that degree.
Some examples of plagiarism are:
- failure to attribute authorship when using a broad spectrum of sources such as written or oral work, computer codes/programs, artistic or architectural works, scientific projects, performances, web page designs, graphical representations, diagrams, videos, and images;
- downloading all or part of the work of another from the Internet and submitting as one's own; and
- the use of a paper prepared by any person other than the individual claiming to be the author"
— from Dalhousie's Policy on Intellectual Honesty
Examples of plagiarism
Plagiarism is committed when you do not acknowledge using someone else's:
- words or phrases
- ideas or thoughts
- term paper
- recording
- images
- computer code
- experiment results
- lecture content
- falsified data, citations or other text
- OR your own previously submitted work
Plagiarized materials can come from:
- books
- journal articles
- CDs
- encyclopedias
- Web pages
- online term papers
- email or listservs
- talks or lectures
Resources from other institutions
