Plagiarism, which is defined by the university as the failure to credit sources used in a work product in an attempt to pass off the work as other than the orginal authors', is a particular heinous form of scholastic dishonesty. Plagiarism in the TAMU chemistry department will not be tolerated and may result in dismissal from the university. Plagiarism can take many forms and students should consult with their research advisors or course-work professors if they feel they may be plagiarizing. Informaton obtained privately, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third parties, should not be used or reported in the author's work without explicit permission from the investigator with whom the information originated. Exceptions from these policies could be construed as plagiarism.
Plagiarism results even if a citation mark is included at the end of the copied section.
It is not standard policy in scientific writing to include significant amounts of verbatim quotations. Paraphrasing involves minor modifications to another person's work, and thus it can also be considered plagiarism. Simple paraphrasing should be avoided unless the original source of the material that the text is paraphrased from is made clear. It must also be made clear that the text is paraphrased. The point is that plagiarism is not just stealing words and representing them as one's own, but rather it is passing off someone else's work as one's own.