Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism is a serious offense.  If you are caught, there will still be consequences.  Here is a sample of what is considered to be intentional and unintentional plagiarism:

     Intentional:

• Purchasing prepared papers from a commercial paper mill.

• Word-for-word copying of another person's work without proper acknowledgement.

• Cutting and pasting from various sources to create a paper without proper acknowledgement.

• Making up or falsifying citations.

• Paraphrasing another person's work in which only a few words or lines have been changed, as well as the improper citing of that paraphrased work.

     Unintentional:

• Forgetting to properly cite a quoted passage.

• Forgetting to put quotation marks around a quoted writer's words.

• Omitting a citation when there was a need for one.

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