Methods of plagiarism in the Academe are divided into four categories.

Category 1 includes the unauthorized and/or unacknowledged collaborative work. Teachers strongly suspect

collaborative plagiarism when the same or similar phrases, quotations, sentences, and/or parallel constructions appear in two or more papers on the same topic. Any significant discussions, advices, comments, or suggestions from others must be acknowledged in a footnote or endnote. Category 2 is about attempting to claim a work made by another person, group or institution. Borrowing, buying, commissioning, copying, receiving, downloading, taking, using, and/or stealing anothers paper are included in this category. Submitting an entire work which is not your own is also an example of a research or academic fraud. Category 3 involves the use of any amount of text that has been improperly paraphrased. Improper paraphrasing is the arranging of words of a source text in a different manner, while retaining the main idea of the author. Improper paraphrasing often results from the use of a single source. Lastly, Category 4 includes the use of text that is properly paraphrased but the source is not cited or improperly cited. (Jones, L., 2011) Reference: Jones, Lars. Academic Integrity & Academic Dishonesty: A Handbook About Cheating and Plagiarism. www.fit.edu. 2011. Web. 29 Aug. 2012