Intentional plagiarism, although less common than unintentional plagiarism, can lead to serious academic penalties, ranging from a reduced grade on an assignment, to failure of a course, to expulsion. Intentional plagiarism includes
engaging in “patchwork writing,” or piecing together passages from multiple sources without acknowledging the sources of the passages and without properly quoting or paraphrasing
creating fake citations to mislead a reader about the sources of information used in a document
copying or closely paraphrasing extended passages from another document and passing them off as the writer’s original work
copying an entire document and passing it off as the writer’s original work
purchasing a document and passing it off as the writer’s original work