Resources on Avoiding Plagiarism
Department of Political Science
Concordia University

III. How Not to Plagiarize
B. Types and Examples of Plagiarism

Type 1: Verbatim (or Word-for-Word) Plagiarism
Using an author's exact words without quotation marks (with or without citation) is plagiarism.

Example

Original Source
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.

[From: Samuel Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (Summer 1993): 22.]

Verbatim Plagiarism
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural (Huntington 1993, 22).

Proper Acknowledgement
Predictions of a clash of civilizations are based on the "hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural" (Huntington 1993, 22).


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