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Deliberate plagiarism is claiming, indicating, or implying that the ideas, sentences, or wordsof another writer are one's own; it includes having another writer do work claimed to be one's own and copying the work of another as a guide to ideas and expressions that are then presented as one's own. In plain English: If you have someone write your essay for you like a friend, a classmate, or your mom(including if two students collaborate and submit identical or nearly identical assignments) or if you copy from someone else's writing (even if that person gave you permission) but act as if you wrote it, you are committing deliberate plagiarism. Since in these cases you know exactly what you're doing, a student guilty of deliberate plagiarism will receive an "F" for the entire course and will be referred for disciplinary action according to the rules in the OSU-Okmulgee Student handbook. Accidental plagiarism is the improper handling of quotations and paraphrases without a deliberate attempt to deceive; it includes failing to mark the beginnings of paraphrases, failing to get away from the language of the original text when paraphrasing, failing to mark quotations with properly placed quotation marks, and failing to properly identify the source of a quotation or paraphrase. In plain English: if you know that you have used other people's writing but don't clearly indicate when or if your writing still sounds too much like the original, you are committing accidental plagiarism. A student guilty of accidental plagiarism will have the offending paper rejected (returned without a grade) by the instructor. The student then has one week to remove the plagiarism through rewriting and resubmits the paper, which will then be graded by the instructor. A case of accidental plagiarism will automatically lower the grade of the rewritten paper by one grade level. Papers not resubmitted within one week will receive a zero (0).
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