Plagiarism, clearly

Plagiarism means presenting someone else's words or ideas as your own. With AI, there is a newer version: presenting AI generated text as your own work.

It counts as plagiarism when you:

• Copy text from a source without quoting and citing it
• Reword a source closely without crediting it
• Hand in AI written passages as if you wrote them
• Reuse your own past work without saying so (this is called self plagiarism)

It is not plagiarism when you:

• Quote a source and cite it properly
• Explain an idea in your own words and cite where it came from
• Use AI to improve sentences you wrote yourself

The safest rule: when an idea or phrasing is not originally yours, say where it came from.

Practice

Look at one paragraph you have already written, or write a short one now. Underline any idea that came from a source. For each, note whether you have credited it. Fix any that are missing a credit.