what's up smart students welcome to my channel i have a question for you raise your hand if you have been one of the students that's been asking me for months and months to cover paraphrasing well good news you're in luck because this is the start of this mini series where i'm going to talk about just that today we're going to start with plagiarism and the different types of it we're going to talk about not just one not just two but six different types of plagiarism so you can understand exactly what it means what they are
and we're going to get to paraphrasing in a couple videos but let's go ahead and start [Music] [Music] so here's the thing about plagiarism is it doesn't matter if it's intentional or unintentional you're still looking at the same consequences so some of those might be maybe you miss a few points on your assignment or if there's too much plagiarized material you might fail the assignment altogether and if you're trying to submit a paper for publication with plagiarized material i promise you're going to get denied so this is why it's really important to understand plagiarism in
everything you can do to avoid it and i do want to start by saying this is that your teachers when they count you offer points or have you fail an assignment they're not trying to be difficult here's the thing is they generally run your papers through a plagiarism checker themselves and if the score is too high they have to count you off there's really nothing they can do about it it's not that they want to it's that they have to and so by the way when it comes to a plagiarism score a rule of thumb
is that you want to keep yours in the single digits so in other words a a score part of me lower than 10 because when you get into 10 and above that is when your professor is going to start counting you off depending on how high you go the harsher it'll be and so as a rule of thumb five percent and under fabulous if you're somewhere between five and ten you're not in the danger zone yet again 10 or higher and so i'm going to link a few plagiarism checkers down below because hey if they're
going to run your paper through a plagiarism checker you might as well do it first cover your bases check your own writing before your professor does but now let's get into those six different types starting with number one direct plagiarism also known as clone plagiarism so it's exactly what it sounds like this is when you're cloning someone else's work and trying to pass it off is your own so in other words you find a source you like you like what they have to say and so you literally highlight copy and paste their writing verbatim and
put it in your own keep in mind you may only use a phrase a sentence maybe a few sentences but regardless even if you credit the author with an in-text citation it doesn't matter because you're copying and pasting their work without putting any of your own work thoughts effort into creating your own idea so that's number one what about number two find and replace so this is similar to number one but you you put a little effort into it you went a step further so you clone their writing but now you change a few of
the words so you like this sentence you grab that sentence you put it in your own paper and then you go to the thesaurus and you change a few words in that sentence and then try and pass it off as your own again this is still plagiarism because now all you did was deliberately change a few words and that's not the correct way to paraphrase but moving on to plagiarism number three which is called patchwork plagiarism or medley or mismatch whatever you want to call it this is one of my favorites because it's one that
i think students fall into when they are feeling desperate so you're trying to meet a deadline sure you have a timeline and it's coming up fast and so you need to get a paper written what happens is is that instead of investing the time to understand the topic or paraphrase correctly you find a bunch of sources that would fit and then you pull material from a few or you pull little bits from all of them and you're thinking it's going to look like effective research because researching is all about synthesizing you know you're reading different
sources you're pulling ideas from all these sources to make a brand new whole piece of information right and so if you pull a sentence here pull a sentence there that should look like synthesizing and effective research wrong you still can't pull a sentence or an idea and idea and idea without paraphrasing it without saying it in new words like correct paraphrasing is and so this plagiarism is very common when a student is just trying to get that paper finished but beyond that one the next type of plagiarism which is by far the most common it's
called accidental plagiarism and so what happens here is you do paraphrase correctly but you don't give credit so you forget to create a reference list entry in an in-text citation this is the most common when a student is just typing away they're working maybe you're not keeping track of your sources but regardless something happens to where you use another source's idea you paraphrase it in your paper it's good to go but you don't credit that author so it's going to flag as plagiarized material but that actually leads me right into the next form of plagiarism
which is self-plagiarism not all students think about this but you can absolutely plagiarize your own work so for example let's say you're in your undergrad degree taking a marketing class you write that paper great now you're in your graduate program taking marketing again and oh the information in that paper in my bachelor's would work in my master's guess what you cannot use your material that you wrote earlier on in a future paper even if it's just a few papers down the line you can't do that because it's still considered plagiarism now i will say if
something in a previous paper really does just fit the paper you're currently writing you can actually cite yourself even if it's an unpublished paper do keep in mind you don't want to do this often because your professor can see that is lazy but you can maybe do it once in a paper and then once way later on but just keep that in mind that you can do it but again you cannot use material you wrote in another paper that's the moral of this story but that leads us to the last type of plagiarism which is
called total plagiarism also known as global plagiarism and now this one results in the harshest type of punishment because what you're doing here is you're taking someone else's work and passing it off fully as your own so the situation that generally arises with this one is you pay for a paper you pay for someone else to write your paper some situation leads to you lying deliberately about the authorship of the work you turned in this is another one of those forms of plagiarism that generally happens when the student is feeling pressure they're feeling desperate they're
trying to meet that timeline that deadline and they know they're not going to but i will say this right now it's better to not meet a timeline than to turn in a piece of work that's not yours ask your professor for the extension and if they say no take that no versus the punishment of globally plagiarizing i don't know if that's a term but we're gonna say it is and there we have it the six different types of plagiarism now i'm curious what type of plagiarism are you most familiar with not because you plagiarize none
of us plagiarize i'm sure this video is merely pointless i'm just curious which type of plagiarism are you most familiar with in your life but anyways thank you so much for watching this video all the way through and by the way youtube has this awesome new feature for subscribers to help support their creators if they want to call youtube thanks it's down where you would like this video and what it is is a nice way to give to your creators let them know the videos you like the content you want to see more of and
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