Anytime you read someone’s academic paper and you have a de-ja-vu feeling it means that the academic paper is plagiarized. Basically the writer of the term paper has stolen someone else’s ideas and work and has presented it as his/her own. There are various types of plagiarisms and this article will help you identify the different types of plagiarisms when you come across an academic paper or an essay. Following are certain types of plagiarisms.

Copy Paste

Let’s start with the most common and easiest type of plagiarism which is copying someone else’s work as exactly as it is and including it in your own academic paper without using quotation marks or in text citations. It is basically copied word by word, sentence by sentence from an internet resource.

Using Ideas

If you are not intending to copy paste someone else’s work word by word and are using his/her ideas in your own words it is still considered plagiarism. Even if you change the entire sentence in your own words but you are still using someone else’s ideas is also identified as plagiarism.

Copying your Own Work

Consider you have already done an assignment but you got another assignment of somewhat similar sorts and you copy it is still considered plagiarism.

Quoting

When you quote someone else’s work and do not cite and give credit to the original author it is plagiarism. You have an option to use someone else’s words using quotation marks and citing the source giving credit to the original author.

Whenever you come across any of these types in an academic paper it is plagiarism. Realize that plagiarism is a crime and can have harmful consequences on your academic career.