In this context, to cheat is to get unauthorized help on an assignment, quiz, or test, and to plagiarize is to present someone else’s work or idea as one’s own. Cheating and intentional plagiarism are deliberate attempts to deceive. However, there is a second form of plagiarize that many are not knowledge of unintentional plagiarism. When a student intentionally plagiarizes, they are cheating, but unintentional plagiarism occurs when a student does not cite their sources properly or does not cite paraphrased information. “Given the nuances of citation and their entanglement with issues of educational goals, originality, intertextuality, selfhood, and individuality, it is clear that students cannot simply be handed a brochure and be expected to get it” (Blum 3). When students are confused and intimidated by citations and their complex rules, they may unintentionally plagiarize without knowing they have done
In this context, to cheat is to get unauthorized help on an assignment, quiz, or test, and to plagiarize is to present someone else’s work or idea as one’s own. Cheating and intentional plagiarism are deliberate attempts to deceive. However, there is a second form of plagiarize that many are not knowledge of unintentional plagiarism. When a student intentionally plagiarizes, they are cheating, but unintentional plagiarism occurs when a student does not cite their sources properly or does not cite paraphrased information. “Given the nuances of citation and their entanglement with issues of educational goals, originality, intertextuality, selfhood, and individuality, it is clear that students cannot simply be handed a brochure and be expected to get it” (Blum 3). When students are confused and intimidated by citations and their complex rules, they may unintentionally plagiarize without knowing they have done