The direct theft (for example, buying one’s paper from an Internet service) aside, plagiarism consists of any integration into one’s essay of a piece of text, a sentence, part of a sentence, a paraphrase, or an idea, without specific attribution. For some, the act of paraphrase by modeling one’s text on the style, syntactic structure, or organization of a text, even with explicit citation, is also plagiarism (sometimes called “close paraphrase”). This fairly severe understanding of plagiarism is criticized by, among others, translation theorists, for whom “copying” is part of literary acts and tradition. Barnstone suggests, for example, that who we define as “author” can be quite traditional or quite intertextual.
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