CS 5650/6650
Visual Perception from a Computer Graphics and Visualization Perspective

Plagiarism


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Plagiarism is re-use in one paper [or other document] of material that has appeared in another, without appropriate acknowledgment” (Zobel, 2009). Plagiarism is unacceptable in any professional or academic situation. Copyright is a legal prohibition against reusing many types of written material without permission. It is different from plagiarism, and not discussed further in this document.

Plagiarism includes (from Hofmann, 2009):
  • Quoting material without acknowledging the source.
  • Borrowing someone else's ideas, concepts, results, and conclusions and passing them off as your own without acknowledging them—even if these ideas have been substantially reworded.
  • Summarizing and paraphrasing another's work without acknowledging the source.
Guidelines for avoiding plagiarism:
  • Cite quoted text appropriately.
    • Quotation marks or indented and italicized block of text.
    • Appropriate pointer to the original source.
  • Avoid simple rewordings of other's text. This should never be done, even with a citation!
  • If you utilize an idea from another source, make sure:
    • The actual words are substantially your own.
    • The source is cited.
    • The scope of the citation is clear. Be careful of multiple sentences involving ideas from another source, with a citation appearing to refer to only one of the sentences.

Angelika H. Hofmann, Scientific Writing and Communication: Papers, Proposals, and Presentations, Oxford University Press, 2009.
Justin Zobel, Writing for Computer Science (2nd edition), Springer, 2004