Is it Plagiarism?

Here are some examples to illustrate good ways of using someone else's work, and some bad ways, which amount to plagiarism. First of all, there's a choice for you. You can work with two sets of examples. One is relevant to writing an argument essay; the other is relevant to work in the School of Health, and anywhere else where you need to reflect on practice and experience. The first set uses a short paragraph from a history book, E.J. Hobsbawm's Industry and Empire, published in 1968 and reprinted in 1990. The quotation comes from the later edition, so we'll reference that as Hobsbawm 1990. Note that this kind of reference is called a Harvard reference. There are other types of reference, and your Module or Programme Handbook will tell you which type to use. Then after the paragraph from Hobsbawm there are five extracts from students' essays which use the material in different ways. Some of these use the material well; others don't, and are guilty of plagiarism. The second set uses a paragraph from a book on medical issues, R. Gillon's Philosophical Medical Ethics, published in 1985. We'll use the 1995 reprint, Gillon (1995).

Now choose an example Hobsbawm or Gillon