Quick note on documentation
The only way to be certain is to check your syllabus and/or ask your professor what documentation style he or she requires.
Fortunately, once you know, there are many references to guide you.
Some great resources:
- HT Writers’ Studio
- Diana Hacker, A Writer’s Reference Research and Documentation online
- Purdue OWL
How the Writers' Studio can help
Why you shouldn't plagiarize
a. We can help you with your writing skills, which can make you a more confident writer
b. We can help you make a plan
c. We can also help you properly cite your sources.
d. We can direct you to other resources.
a. It is unethical.
b. It robs the plagiarizer of a learning opportunity.
c. Lastly, it can negatively affect your grade and/or standing at the school.
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How to avoid plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work, original ideas, or words as your own, without crediting the source.
- Manage your time wisely so that you have time to research, draft, revise, and proofread.
- Learn how to incorporate information you get from research into your own writing effectively and responsibly.
- Learn how to acknowledge or document sources appropriately.
- Learn how to recognize what information needs to be documented.
To cite or not to cite?
Some forms of plagiarism
- Document the source of information that you get from the Internet, email, conversations, class discussions, broadcast media, books, articles and other print sources, songs, films, interviews, etc.
- Direct quotes, summaries, and paraphrases all need to be cited.
- Document the source of pictures, graphs, illustrations, that you did not create yourself.
- Don’t document “common knowledge.”
- Don’t document your own experiences, observations, conclusions, thoughts or the results of your own experiments.
- Presenting a paper written by someone else as your own
- Presenting someone else’s research as your own
- Presenting someone else’s original ideas or expert knowledge as your own
- Presenting someone else’s words as your own
Read more: Purdue OWL “Avoiding Plagiarism.”
Common Examples of Internet-assisted Plagiarism:
- Downloading Web pages or articles from the Internet and presenting them as your own work;
- Copying sentences, paragraphs or passages from the Internet and pasting them into your paper without crediting the sources;
- Buying papers from Internet “paper mills.”
Internet-assisted plagiarism is not hard to detect.
Avoiding Plagiarism