Quote Plagiarism
Presenting someone else's words as your own by removing or omitting the quotation marks.
Quote plagiarism is the simplest form of the offence: taking a sentence written or spoken by another and letting readers assume it is yours. It happens through deleted quotation marks, dropped attributions, or lightly reworded borrowings.
Citing the source does not by itself cure it. Reproducing exact wording with a citation but without quotation marks still misrepresents which words are yours, and most academic codes treat that as plagiarism rather than as a formatting error.
Accidental cases usually trace to note-taking: a phrase copied verbatim into notes, later drafted in without its marks. Recording quotation marks at the point of capture prevents nearly all of them.
Common mistake: assuming familiar phrasing is public property. Recent coinages and distinctive turns of phrase have identifiable authors, and "everyone says it" is not a source.
“A verbatim sentence from a source, cited in a footnote but printed without quotation marks.”
Keep reading the glossary
The act of naming the original speaker or writer of a quote.
Word-for-word — quoting exactly as the original was spoken or written.
Restating someone's words in your own — credit still required, quotation marks not.
A formal reference that lets a reader locate the source of a quote.