Plagiarism is defined as the submission or presentation of work, in any form, that is not a student's own, without acknowledgment of the sources. With specific regard to papers a simple rule dictates when it is necessary to acknowledge sources. If a student obtains information or ideas from an outside source, that source must be acknowledged. Another rule to follow is that any direct quotation must be placed in quotation marks, and the source immediately cited. 1 Plagiarism can occur whenever you make use of the ideas or work product of someone else without including an appropriate citation.
Plagiarism is possible with any formal work performed in any medium and in any scholarly discipline.
To avoid the most common forms of inadvertent plagiarism, you should develop the habit of citing sources not only when you execute the final draft of a scholarly project but also as you take any preliminary notes for it. The main image in Othello is that of animals in action, preying upon one another, mischievous, lascivious, cruel or suffering, and through these, the general sense of pain and unpleasantness is much increased and kept constantly before us. He refers to a plague of flies, a quarrelsome dog, bird-snaring, leading asses by the nose, a spider catching a fly, beating an offenceless dog, wild cats, goats and monkeys. Through these images the general sense of pain and unpleasantness is increased and kept constantly before us. Note that this paragraph duplicates Spurgeon's passage with only slight rearrangement and restatement, and without using appropriate quotation marks or providing a citation at the end.