{"id":45451,"date":"2026-03-20T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?p=45451"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:28:47","slug":"plagiarism-vs-paraphrasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/plagiarism-vs-paraphrasing","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism vs Paraphrasing: Know the Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plagiarism vs Paraphrasing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else\u2019s work without proper attribution.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paraphrasing is conveying someone else\u2019s idea in your work using your own words and giving credit to the correct source.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I think the earliest&nbsp;memory most of us have about plagiarism is when our teachers told us NOT to copy from&nbsp;each other\u2019s&nbsp;assignments&nbsp;in school!&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201c<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Copying is bad.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This thought was drilled into our brains from our early learning days. Yet, as adults, we realized that researchers build their idea on someone else\u2019s work. Does that not count as copying? Well, the answer can be complicated. In the research landscape, terms like plagiarism and paraphrasing often seem confusing. So let\u2019s get some clarity.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#plagiarism-definition\">What is Plagiarism?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#paraphrasing-definition\">What is Paraphrasing?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#plagiarism-types\">Different Types of Plagiarism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#paraphrasing-tips\">How to Paraphrase Correctly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"plagiarism-definition\">What is Plagiarism?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Plagiarism is passing off someone else\u2019s idea, research,&nbsp;or&nbsp;findings&nbsp;as your own and not&nbsp;citing the original source. Deliberate plagiarism, also&nbsp;called&nbsp;direct plagiarism, is when the author is aware of&nbsp;their actions&nbsp;and still decides&nbsp;to go ahead with this unethical practice.&nbsp;Sometimes,&nbsp;content can be accidentally plagiarized. Meaning, the author is not aware that&nbsp;their action&nbsp;could be&nbsp;deemed&nbsp;plagiarism&nbsp;because, in their opinion, they\u2019ve&nbsp;\u201cparaphrased\u201d what the&nbsp;other author wrote in their paper.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paraphrasing-definition\">What is Paraphrasing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paraphrasing is&nbsp;using your own words to&nbsp;rewrite a previously published idea or&nbsp;a research&nbsp;finding and crediting the original source. Remember:&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;a two-step action where you<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">first rephrase the original content\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and then cite the source<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Even if one of these steps is missed,&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;committed plagiarism.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"plagiarism-types\">Different Types of Plagiarism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Plagiarism can be deliberate or accidental. Nevertheless,&nbsp;knowing&nbsp;what journals consider plagiarized content&nbsp;helps&nbsp;you avoid them in your&nbsp;work. Here are three common types of plagiarism&nbsp;explained&nbsp;by taking examples from a research paper&nbsp;[1]&nbsp;published in the&nbsp;<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">International&nbsp;Journal&nbsp;of&nbsp;Sport Nutrition&nbsp;and&nbsp;Exercise Metabolism<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Direct plagiarism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When you copy a sentence from a published research&nbsp;paper&nbsp;verbatim&nbsp;in yours, it is direct plagiarism. Even if you cite the source,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;still plagiarized content because&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;copied the text as is from the original.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Example:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Original sentence in the paper&nbsp;by Smith et al. (2022):&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">It is recommended that mixed participant studies assess each participant classification separately.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Your sentence:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">It&nbsp;is recommended that mixed participant studies assess each participant classification separately.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why is it plagiarized?&nbsp;One,&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;copied the text verbatim without making any changes from the original; two,&nbsp;there\u2019s&nbsp;no proper attribution.&nbsp;You\u2019ve&nbsp;not used quotation marks or mentioned the citation. So,&nbsp;here\u2019s&nbsp;how it can be corrected:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">Smith et al. (2022) recommend&nbsp;separate&nbsp;assessment of&nbsp;participants&nbsp;classified into categories, especially when&nbsp;the participant group is mixed.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Here,&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;managed to write a complete sentence by attributing the information to the original source and&nbsp;by&nbsp;modifying&nbsp;the wording&nbsp;to reflect&nbsp;what is important for your research.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Paraphrasing plagiarism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Paraphrasing plagiarism occurs when you rewrite someone else\u2019s&nbsp;ideas but do not credit them. So, even if the sentence is your&nbsp;own, the idea is not. And when&nbsp;the attribution to source text is missing, the content is&nbsp;deemed&nbsp;plagiarized.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Example:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Original sentence in the paper by Smith et al. (2022):&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u202f<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">By&nbsp;identifying&nbsp;strengths and gaps&nbsp;in the quantity and quality of the existing literature, sports practitioners and academics can uncover underdeveloped topics or potential problems with the quality of research in relation to female athletes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Your sentence:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">Identifying&nbsp;strengths and&nbsp;gaps in both quantity and quality of existing literature is&nbsp;a great way&nbsp;for sports practitioners and academics to&nbsp;recognize less-explored topics and&nbsp;possible issues&nbsp;with research quality with respect to female athletes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">You\u2019ve&nbsp;paraphrased the original text. But&nbsp;there\u2019s&nbsp;no citation attributing the&nbsp;idea to the original author. Hence, this will be&nbsp;considered as&nbsp;plagiarism. How to correct it:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">According to Smith et al. (2022), for sports professionals and scholars, one way of recognizing&nbsp;emerging&nbsp;topics and&nbsp;potential issues&nbsp;with research quality&nbsp;concerning female athletes&nbsp;is&nbsp;to&nbsp;assess the&nbsp;strengths&nbsp;and&nbsp;weaknesses&nbsp;in both the quantity and quality of current&nbsp;literature.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The sentence is now correctly paraphrased with the source of the idea being accurately attributed.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mosaic plagiarism<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Let\u2019s&nbsp;say you do paraphrase and cite the&nbsp;source. How you paraphrase matters! If you alter a few words&nbsp;from the original text, say by replacing&nbsp;them&nbsp;with&nbsp;synonyms,&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;not put any of your own thought into it and&nbsp;simply&nbsp;changed how&nbsp;the&nbsp;sentence reads&nbsp;to make it slightly different from the original text. This is&nbsp;mosaic plagiarism.<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Example:<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Original sentence in the paper by Smith et al. (2022):&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">It is noted that specific allocation of these themes will likely change according to the topic or subdiscipline of SSSM being assessed and may involve some subjectivity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Your sentence:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">Smith et al. (2022)&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">noted that&nbsp;<\/span><b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">particular<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\"> allocation of themes&nbsp;<\/span><b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">is&nbsp;likely&nbsp;to&nbsp;modify&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">according to the topic or subdiscipline of SSSM being&nbsp;<\/span><b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">evaluated<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">&nbsp;and may&nbsp;<\/span><b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">include<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">&nbsp;some subjectivity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Notice the text in bold? Those are the only replacements&nbsp;you\u2019ve&nbsp;made. Now despite the mention of the original&nbsp;work&nbsp;at the beginning of the sentence, the lack of originality in your sentence itself stands out,&nbsp;causing plagiarism checkers to flag your sentence as plagiarized.&nbsp;Here\u2019s&nbsp;an alternative:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><span style=\"color: red;\" data-contrast=\"none\">The allocation of research themes&nbsp;is&nbsp;subjective&nbsp;when exploring&nbsp;the subdisciplines under sports science and sports medicine (Smith et al.&nbsp;2022).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">See the difference?&nbsp;You\u2019ve&nbsp;taken the idea recommended in the original text but presented it<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in your own words and&nbsp;used proper attribution. This is good practice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"paraphrasing-tips\">How to Paraphrase Correctly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We\u2019ve&nbsp;now&nbsp;seen what&nbsp;causes plagiarism&nbsp;and&nbsp;how they can be avoided.&nbsp;In a nutshell,&nbsp;you need to&nbsp;paraphrase&nbsp;correctly and cite&nbsp;the source. The second&nbsp;part&nbsp;of&nbsp;attributing credit to sources is easy; but what about paraphrasing? Here are&nbsp;four helpful&nbsp;tips:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Read the original text\u00a0completely and understand it fully.\u00a0What\u2019s\u00a0the author trying to imply?\u00a0And what did you infer from it?\u00a0Get clarity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Once the concept is clear,\u00a0use your memory to write what you\u00a0understood.\u00a0Do not keep looking at the original text repeatedly as it could\u00a0collude\u00a0your own\u00a0thoughts.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Next, compare the two versions: your sentence with the original one.\u00a0Make sure that the core message is the\u00a0same\u00a0but the words used differ from each other.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Finally,\u00a0provide proper attribution. Cite the source\u00a0immediately\u00a0after the sentence (or near to it) so\u00a0it is clear which part was referenced.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Plagiarism can be tricky to&nbsp;handle, especially when you have a lengthy research paper&nbsp;to write and edit.&nbsp;Many journals&nbsp;use&nbsp;plagiarism checkers&nbsp;(either third-party tools or in-house developed ones) to filter out&nbsp;papers in the desk check process. If&nbsp;you\u2019re&nbsp;looking for&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">an expert-driven pre-submission check, plagiarism check, and comprehensive formatting,&nbsp;reach out to&nbsp;Editage\u2019s&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/desk-rejection-shield?utm_source=editageinsights&amp;utm_medium=article-boilerplate&amp;utm_campaign=202603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Desk Rejection Shield Service<\/span><\/b><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;submit&nbsp;confidently!<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reference&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1. Methodology review: a protocol to audit the representation of female athletes in sports science and sports medicine research <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1123\/ijsnem.2021-0257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1123\/ijsnem.2021-0257<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plagiarism vs Paraphrasing Introduction I think the earliest&nbsp;memory most of us have about plagiarism is when our teachers told us NOT to copy from&nbsp;each other\u2019s&nbsp;assignments&nbsp;in school!&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cCopying is bad.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; This thought was drilled into our brains from our early learning days. Yet, as adults, we realized that researchers build their idea on someone else\u2019s work. 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