Plagiarism  

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is using the words and ideas of someone else and presenting them as your own. The act is a violation of trust and the consequences are serious.

For example, you must cite when using:

• Another person’s ideas, words, opinions
• Any facts, graphs, drawings, … ANY kind of information that is not common knowledge
• Quotations: another person’s spoken or written words
• Paraphrases: minimally changing another persons words or ideas

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Forms of Plagiarism

• Handing in a paper done by someone else
• Copying text from a website and pasting it into your document
• Using facts, statistics, etc. without acknowledging the source
• Handing in the same paper for two different assignments
• Using the results of someone else’s research as if it were your own

      For examples 

How to Avoid plagiarism

• Keep accurate records during the research process [author, title, place of publication, publisher, date, etc.]
• Put quotations marks around any words copied verbatim into your notes

       Take a tutorial (Recommended by Walsh faculty)
       Side by side comparison of correct citation method vs. plagiarism of a passage