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NOTE: All material is taken from the seventh edition of the
Handbook of Technical Writing
by
Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu, Bedford/St. Martins, 2003
Plagiarism & Ethics
Plagiarism includes the following points (pg. 405):
Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s unique ideas without acknowledgment or the use of
someone else’s exact words without quotation marks and appropriate credit.
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You may quote or paraphrase the words and ideas of another if you document your
source. Although you do not enclose paraphrased ideas or materials in quotation marks,
you must document their sources. Paraphrasing a passage without citing the source is
permissible only when the information paraphrased is common knowledge in a field.
Common knowledge
refers to information on a topic widely known and readily available
in handbooks, manuals, atlases, and other references.
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