Study Skills: Tutorial 7: Understanding plagiarism and how to avoid it: Different types of plagiarism

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in this lesson you will consider:

What Academic Misconduct and plagiarism are
Why this is an important issue in your academic study
How to maintain Academic Integrity and avoid plagiarism
How to detect plagiarism

Different types of plagiarism

There are many different ways that you can plagiarise.

The following infographic from thevisualcommunicationguy.com provides an excellent overview of the different types of plagiarism. You can also download it here.

It highlights thirteen different types of plagiarism with various levels of severity. You might want to compare these descriptions to the types of plagiarism included in Morling/Act policies.

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October 2025

Different types of plagiarism

Different types of plagiarism