for students to understand how to carry out research and provide citations in an appropriate manner. It is also very important to understand that plagiarism is not an offence limited to the world of academia. Theft of intellectual property and violation of copyright are offences in the "real world" too, offences that can and do result in lawsuits. Categories of written offences other than plagiarism: Submission of work not written and prepared by you, including (but not limited to): Copying or stealing the work of another student Paying for the creation of work by a commercial service or by an acquaintance to be submitted by you Acceptance of such service for free Purchasing already existing written work Using an essay for submission by you which was found on one of the free Internet essay sites Writing a paper for course submission by another student Excessive unauthorized collaboration with another student(s) Submitting the same paper to more than one course without the permission of all instructors Types and varieties of plagiarism include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following: Word-for-word use of part or all of any written work (print or electronic) without quotation marks and/or without citation of the source (footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetic citations) and/or without a complete bibliography. Word-for-word use of text spans (phrases, sentences, paragraphs, longer segments) patched together from two or more sources without quotation marks and/or without citation of the source and/or without a complete bibliography. Word-for-word use of primary source materials without quotation