According to Red Deer College policy (Student Dispute, Appeal and Misconduct Processes Policy):

"Plagiarism involves submitting work in a course as if it were the student’s own work...

The most common forms of plagiarism consist of these practices:

• copying from someone else’s writing without proper acknowledgement

• paraphrasing someone else’s writing without proper acknowledgement

• using the ideas or line of reasoning original to someone else without proper acknowledgement

• submitting work in which someone else has made substantial editing improvements to the content and phrasing of the work of the submitter

• submitting work in one course that the submitter has already submitted in another course, without the approval of the person teaching the current course

• the work submitted or presented was done, in whole or in part, by an individual other than the student presenting the work"