Plagiarism Information
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What is Plagiarism?
- buying a paper from a research service
- turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website
- turning in another student’s work as your own
- copying from a source text without proper acknowledgment
- copying materials from a source text, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks
- paraphrasing materials from a source text without appropriate documentation
- copying and pasting sections from web sites, without proper documentation
- handing in a paper you have previously handed in for another course, without permission of BOTH teachers
How to Avoid Plagiarism:
To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you:
- state another person's idea, opinion, or insight
- use any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings
- use any piece of information that is not common knowledge
- quote another person's spoken or written words
- paraphrase another person's spoken or written words
How to Paraphrase
- rewrite the information, don't just rearrange or replace a few words
(Read over the text that you want to paraphrase. Cover the text so you can't see it. Write out the idea in your own words, without looking at the original text)
- check your paraphrase against the original text to be sure you have not accidentally used the same phrases or words, and that the information is accurate.