You might be plagiarizing if you:

• Submit someone else's work as your own.
• Buy a paper from a papermill, website, or other source.
• Copy sentences, phrases, paragraphs, or even ideas from someone else's work, published or unpublished, without giving the original author credit.
• Replace select words from a passage without giving the original author credit.
• Copy any type of multimedia (graphics, audio, video, Internet streams), computer programs, music compositions, graphs, or charts from someone else's work without giving the original creator credit.
• Cut and paste together phrases, ideas, and sentences from a variety of sources to write an essay.
• Build on someone else's idea or phrase to write your paper without giving the original author credit.
• Submit your own paper in more than one course without permission of the teachers.