In most cases, the dictum can be applied appropriately: plagiarism is plagiarism. However, there are in fact degrees of plagiarism: one can steal an entire paper, or a section of a paper, or a page, a ...
MLA Style Center: Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty (external link) This helpful page from the Modern Language Association defines plagiarism and why it's such a serious issue, and it offers ...
The first instance of alleged plagiarism comes on page five. Citing a 1961 paper by Cecil Wittson, Craig Affleck, and Van Johnson, Whitten writes, “Wittson and colleagues were the first to ...