Types of Plagiarism

Clone:

Submitting another’s work word-for-word, as one’s own

CTRL-C:

Contains significant portions of text from a single source without alteration

Find – Replace:

Changing key words and phrases but retaining the essential content of the source

Remix:

Paraphrases from multiple sources, made to fit together

Recycle:

Borrows generously from the writer’s previous work without citation

Hybrid:

Combines perfectly cited sources with copied passages without citation

Mashup:

Mixes copied material from multiple sources

404 Error: 

Includes citations to non-existent or inaccurate information about sources

Aggregator:

Includes proper citation to sources but the paper contains almost no original work

Re-tweet:

Includes proper citation, but relies too closely on the text’s original working and/or structure.