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From Writing Center of University of North Carolina hand out
I learned of a very difficult predicament students in one in a distant location. Their integrity as individuals: students, businessman are under fire on account of an alleged serious academic malfeasance. It is a very serious allegation/offense, and may mean end of their academic career as students They were (at least 4 of them) were alleged to have committed plagiarism) and the issue has reached the higher ups of the school. The professsor has informed the dean of the alleged mischief.
Just what is plagiarism?
According the UNC hand out, "it is “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.” Thus attribution is an important action on the part of the student, or a part of the paper that removes plagiarism from a quoted text, sentence or paragraph. I saw in the students' paper that proper attribution: footnotes, bibliography were made.
