Attribution: the ascribing of a work or an idea to a particular author or artist.

Citation: the act of directly quoting or giving intellectual credit to another person's work or ideas.

Collusion: "any form of joint effort, between students, or between students and other persons, intended to deceive an assessor as to who was actually responsible for producing the material submitted for assessment". (University of Western Sydney 2000).

Copyright: the legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.

Common Knowledge: can be defined as facts known by a large number of people. These "facts" do not have to be cited.

Cyber-Plagiarism: copying or downloading in part, or in their entirety, articles or research papers found on the Internet or copying ideas found on the Web and not giving proper attribution.

Group Work: can be described as "a formally established project to be conducted by a number of students in common, resulting in a single piece of assessment or a number of associated pieces of assessment". (Newcastle University 2002).

Intentional Plagiarism: Waltman describes intentional plagiarism as "the wholesale copying of another's paper with the intention of representing it as one's own" (Lathrop and Foss p163). In addition, the definition of deliberate or intentional plagiarism includes the theft of another person's ideas.

Legitimate collaboration: Newcastle University describes legitimate collaboration as "any constructive educational and intellectual practice that aims to facilitate optimal learning outcomes through interaction between students".

Paraphrasing:
1. A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
2. The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.

Paper Mill: a term applied to providers of pre-written term papers and other "educational tools" via the Internet. Some web sites offer thousands of papers online.

Plagiarism: the stealing or passing off as one's own (the idea or words of another); use (a created production) without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source (Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, p. 1728).

Public Domain: a work in the public domain is free for everyone to use without asking for permission or paying royalties. The phrase "public domain" is a copyright term referring to works that belong to the public. Works can be in the public domain for a variety of reasons: because the term of copyright protection has expired; because the work was not eligible for copyright protection in the first place; or because the copyright owner has given the copyright in the work to the public domain. The owner must specifically license all or certain uses of the work. This is done by stating on the work what uses are permitted such as, for example, that the work may be reproduced, communicated, or performed for educational purposes without permission or payment.

Quoting: to place an excerpt from a source word for word into one's paper. The source must be cited, giving credit to the original author.

Summarising: to put someone else's concept or main ideas into one's own words.

Unintentional Plagiarism: can be described as "careless paraphrasing and citing of source material such that improper or misleading credit is given" (Waltman quoted in Lathrop and Foss p 163).