Why is paraphrasing considered plagiarism?

Even if the student-writer had acknowledged Chase as the source of the content, the language of the passage would be considered plagiarized because no quotation marks indicate the phrases that come directly from Chase. read more

Why this is plagiarism. This paraphrase is a patchwork composed of pieces in the original author’s language (in red) and pieces in the student-writer’s words, all rearranged into a new pattern, but with none of the borrowed pieces in quotation marks. read more

If you paraphrase sloppily (or worse, fail to cite the source altogether), then yes, it’s certainly plagiarism. A poorly done paraphrase can still come across as plagiarism if it reads as if they were your words but in reality they were somebody else’s words or ideas (this happens when you’ve just done a minimal rewrite and only changed a few key words and only nominally credited the source). read more

The paraphrase is so close to the original that it is considered essentially a direct quote without attribution. Unacceptable paraphrase, particularly close paraphrase, usually shows the student does not have a significant understanding of the subject and opens the possibility of misrepresenting the original author's ideas. read more