AlwaysAQuestion Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Is it considered plagiarism if you are citing the same sources as another student? The content of the paper is not the same, only the sources cited seem to match up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rising_star Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 I don't see how that would be plagiarism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juilletmercredi Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 If the papers are on the same or similar topics, I would expect that the sources would be pretty much the same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAQuestion Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 I submitted this assignment through SafeAssign, and it is matching my sources to "another student's paper" by 36%. Should I be concerned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylogician Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 No, using the same sources as another student is not plagiarism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 10, 2012 Share Posted July 10, 2012 You could use all the exact same sources as another student and it wouldn't be plagiarism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauseRewind Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Like the other posters, I'd except many of the same sources as an earlier paper on the same topic, and 36% similar sources seems normal to me. And I guess Hank might be right about using all the same exact sources not amounting to plagiarism per say- I have no idea whether it would or not. . . . That being said, I can't see 100% of the same sources (i.e. no additional ones) being ok for a professor, for several reasons . . . especially if that other paper was published more than a year ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank Scorpio Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 And I guess Hank might be right about using all the same exact sources not amounting to plagiarism per say- I have no idea whether it would or not. . . . That being said, I can't see 100% of the same sources (i.e. no additional ones) being ok for a professor, for several reasons . . . especially if that other paper was published more than a year ago Ah yes! I was thinking more about two papers from students in the same class, especially if it's an author course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeruK Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 If I was grading some papers on a "general" topic for e.g. a first year intro course (where I wouldn't expect students to write on such similar topics that they would have exactly the same sources), and I came across two papers that had identical bibliographies, it would raise a flag of potential plagiarism, but 100% identical sources in itself isn't plagiarism. I would then (re)read the actual paper and decide. On the other hand, if I was grading a lab report (I know this isn't the OP's case but giving another perspective), then I would almost expect the sources (for standard values of certain quantities) to be exactly the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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