Plagiarism & Academic Integrity

Often times it is misunderstanding rather than intentional copying that happens in papers.

Commonly uncredited items beyond text can and do include:

• Graphs
• Statistics
• Images
• Video Clips
• Audio Clips
• Dates
• Websites

Students will sometimes turn to plagiarism when they are frustrated, lost, confused, or desperate.  Encourage students to reach out for support.  Even at 3 a.m, they are not alone!

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A survey of over 63,700 US undergraduate and 9,250 graduate students over the course of three years (2002-2005)--conducted by Donald McCabe, Rutgers University--revealed the following:

• 36% of undergraduates admit to “paraphrasing/copying few sentences from Internet source without footnoting it.”
  • 24% of graduate students self report doing the same

• 38% admit to “paraphrasing/copying few sentences from written source without footnoting it.”
  • 25% of graduate students self report doing the same

• 14% of students admit to “fabricating/falsifying a bibliography”
  • 7% of graduate students self report doing the same

• 7% self report copying materials “almost word for word from a written source without citation.”
  • 4% of graduate students self report doing the same

• 7% self report “turning in work done by another.”
  • 3% of graduate students self report doing the same

• 3% report “obtaining paper from term paper mill.”
  • 2% of graduate students report doing so

iParadigms, LLC. "FACTS & STATS." plagiarism.org. 2014.Web. <http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/facts-and-stats/>.