plagiarize
The university decided to fire a professor for committing plagiarism and falsifying data.
Universities do give guidance on avoiding plagiarism, but good practice needs to begin in schools.
A spokesman said that students guilty of blatant plagiarism could be stripped of their grades.

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Examples of plagiarism

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Accordingly, there have been various attempts at adopting new labels to avoid the stigmatizing effect of the term plagiarism itself.
Among historians and sociologists of science, it is a commonplace that scientists' accusations of plagiarism defy straightforward explanations.
As can be imagined, there is vast potential here for ambiguity, for allegations of plagiarism, and for actual litigation.
Based on a body of literature primarily in applied linguistics, this review focuses on textual plagiarism and antiplagiarism in second language academic writing.
Moving beyond prevalent moral explanations, we further sought alternative reasons for students' inappropriate textual borrowing practices, often categorized as plagiarism.
We argue that student textual plagiarism can best be viewed as an issue of authorial identity construction.
All of the students completed questionnaires which focussed on their attitudes toward, and understanding of, plagiarism.
This is lexicographical plagiarism taken into a new dimension; it is also all too human.
Voices are being raised across the disciplines concerning the increasing prevalence of plagiarism and how to deal with it.
More systematic studies of faculty attitudes to plagiarism are needed.
Students holding this belief tend to reject the term plagiarism when characterizing their textual practice.
The challenge is to make sure that students do not exaggerate the procedure and turn it into plagiarism (by "borrowing" chunks that are too large).
They were also more aware of university policy on plagiarism.
Perhaps the eating artist is vulgar because eating is plagiarism.
It is the public nature of discovery that makes plagiarism a popular accusation in disputes over priority.
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