plagiarised

Everyday

1. Plagiarised means copied from someone else's work and passed off as your own, without saying where it came from. tree →
2. As an adjective it describes work that was copied in this way. tree →

In the lessons

In school it is about homework and projects: copying from the internet or a classmate without saying so is plagiarism, and it is cheating. Pupils learn to put words in their own words and to say where facts came from. Phrases: «plagiarised essay», «plagiarised from the internet».

Examples

• The teacher found that the essay was plagiarised. tree →
• He plagiarised a poem and said he wrote it. tree →
• Plagiarised work gets zero marks. tree →
• Don't copy and paste — that's plagiarised writing. tree →
• She was upset that her story had been plagiarised. tree →
• Use your own words so your work isn't plagiarised. tree →
• The song was accused of being plagiarised. tree →
• Always list your sources to avoid plagiarised work. tree →

Note

British spelling -ise, American -ize. Pronounced PLAY-jer-ized. Noun: plagiarism; person: plagiarist. Quoting with quotation marks and naming the source is NOT plagiarism.