Plagiarism
First, a general warning on plagiarism is in order. Plagiarism is the
use of someone else's work, either copied or paraphrased, which you
pass off as your own by failing to cite its true source. Any phrases
and sentences taken from any other work (including any other student
essay) must be set out as a quotation by being enclosed in inverted
commas.
The work from which it is taken must be acknowledged in a footnote.
When you need to set out the argument of an authority (which should
not happen often), paraphrasing is preferable to quotation at length.
In either case, the authority must be properly cited. It is usual also
to mention the name of the authority in the text, often with an indication
of why you consider it important.
Plagiarism in any form is unethical and unacceptable. A paper of which
any portion is plagiarised may well be failed and even receive no mark
at all. This also applies to unauthorised collaboration between students.
