What is Plagiarism?

As stated in the Nazarbayev University Student Code of Conduct, Plagiarism is intentionally or carelessly presenting the work of another as one’s own. It includes submitting an assignment purporting to be the student’s original work which has wholly or in part been created by another person. It also includes the presentation of the work, ideas, representations, or words of another person without customary and proper acknowledgement of sources.

Plagiarism occurs when a person:

• Directly copies one or more sentences of another person’s written work without proper citation. If another writer’s words are used, you must place quotation marks around the quoted material and include a footnote or other indication of the source of the quotation. This includes cut and paste from the Internet or other electronic sources;

• Changes words but copies the sentence structure of a source without giving credit to the original source, or closely paraphrases one or more paragraphs without acknowledgement of the source of the ideas, or uses graphs, figures, drawings, charts or other visual/audio materials without acknowledging the source or the permission of the author;

• Submits false or altered information in any academic exercise. This may include making up data for an experiment, altering data, citing nonexistent articles, contriving sources, etc.;

• Turns in all or part of assignment done by another student and claims it as their own;

• Uses a paper writing service, has another student write a paper, or uses a foreign language translation and submits it as their own original work.

View the complete Nazarbayev University Student Code of Conduct