Dennis Walker

Brand New Technology of Plagiarism Detection

You’re working on a paper and you’ve just written a line that seems familiar. Did you read it somewhere while you were researching the topic? If you did, does that count as cheating? Now that you’re looking at it, there are a few other lines that you know you borrowed from elsewhere. But now they’re an important part of your work. Is it still cheating if you’re using less than a paragraph?