If you use someone's ideas or words without proper credit, you have plagiarized!
Can be intentional or unintentional!
Can take many forms, including:
using someone's ideas or words without providing a proper credit
copying and pasting from a source (without quotation marks AND proper credit)
quoting too extensively
poorly paraphrasing a source (too close to the original)
presenting someone's work or part of a work as your own
making up sources or crediting sources that were not really used
misattributing (crediting the wrong source or page)
submitting a paper that was written by someone else
Please Ask and Understand Your Teacher's Policy on AI!!!
Avoiding Plagiarism:
Use notes (don't write as you read source)
take notes in bullet points/phrases
carefully & accurately record source & page # information
paraphrase
look up words you don't understand
summarize sections, don't simply reword, sentence by sentence
Keep organized (a teacher may ask you to document your research!!)
Proofread
ask, "Is this common knowledge, or did I use a source to get this information?"
Get help
Please note: it is required that an incident of academic dishonesty be reported to the administration
Sources can be:
Web sites & pages (including social media sites, blogs, etc.)
Online documents
Videos/movies
Sound files (music, podcasts, etc.)
Person (interview, either original, recorded, or written)
Books (including eBooks, online books, audio books, chapters, articles/entries)
Magazines, journals, newspapers (including online editions, online only, databases)
Copyright (legal) vs. Plagiarism:
Copyright is legal protection for intellectual property
Use with permission by creator
"Fair Use" exception
Copyrighted material may be used without permission under certain circumstances, including instruction, academic work (including student work), parody, criticism, and news (reporting)
Some works have fallen out of copyright (protection has expired) and are now in the "Public Domain"