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).