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CRJ 323: Research Methods

Kinds of Plagiarism

  1. Global: passing off an entire text by someone else as your own work.
  2. Verbatim: directly copying someone else’s words without citation.
  3. Paraphrasing: rephrasing someone else’s ideas to present them as your own without citation.
  4. Patch Writing or Mosaic: words are too similar to those of the original source with or without citation.
  5. Self: recycling your own past work.
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