10 Types of Plagiarism Ordered from Most to Least Severe
1. Clone:
An act of submitting another's work, word-for-word, as one's own.
2. CTRL-C:
A written piece that contains significant portions of text from a single source without alterations.
3. Find-Replace:
The act of changing keywords and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source in a paper.
4. Remix:
An act of paraphrasing from other sources and making the content fit together seamlessly.
5. Recycle:
The act of borrowing generously from one's own previous work without citation; To self plagiarize.
6. Hybrid:
The act of combining perfectly cited sources with copied passages--without a citation--on one paper.
7. Mashup:
A paper that represents a mix of copied material from several different sources without proper citation.
8. 404 Error:
A written piece that includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources.
9. Aggregator:
The "Aggregator" includes proper citation, but the paper contains almost no original work.
10. Re-tweet:
This paper includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text's original wording and/or structure.
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