Plagiarism 01
Channel: Unofficial Side Project
Date: 28/01/2018

This video introduces you to why it is important to avoid plagiarising work. The emphasis is on academic honesty and integrity.

It is provided as many may not fully understand what plagiarism, what it looks like, and why it is bad.

Good reading on this topic can be found at these links:

http://www.urkund.com/en/about-urkund/675-why-is-plagiarism-a-problem

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/write/writesite/exercises/plagiarism_tutorial/link_10.aspx

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/03/05/plagiarism-is-more-than-just-text/ 

The video displays an assignment (anonymised) that is nearly 100% plagiarised.

An excellent site to visit now is the following:

https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/definition.html

It provides examples of paraphrasing and plagiarism, a tutorial on plagiarism (how to avoid doing it!), and even a test.  It's all free.

You can also access a higher quality version of the video at https://youtu.be/1PIwg0Gt0WI