Other Examples of Using Unauthorized Tools Paraphrasing tools produce writing that is flawed and at times hard to understand because they provide a word-for-word translation, and as a result, you cannot depend on this tool for proper wording, grammar or sentence structure.
Plagiarism from a paraphrasing tool is harder to detect using a tool such as Turnitin, but your professor is still likely to know that these words and ideas are not your own. Even though the Turnitin similarity score you received was low, it does not mean that plagiarism did not occur. When students submit their essays to Turnitin, it automatically checks the work for text that is the same as other sources such as material on the Internet, articles and other submitted student work. Turnitin is a type of plagiarism-detection software that many professors at Sheridan ask students to use before submitting their work for grading. As a result, you committed a breach of academic integrity: plagiarism.Īccording to Sheridan's Academic Integrity Policy (2016), some ways that students plagiarize is by “copying another person’s words without the use of quotation marks and appropriate references to signify that these are excerpts from someone else’s work” and “presenting another person’s ideas or theories in your own words without acknowledging that person” (p. How is this a Breach of Academic Integrity?Įven though the original essay included all the points you wished to make, these ideas came from someone else and so they require a reference. In doing so, you submitted work that used both paraphrased wording and ideas from another source and you did not give credit to the original authors. In this scenario, you used a paraphrasing tool to help you re-write someone else's essay.
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