Digital Literacy & Academic Integrity

   What is Plagiarism? How to Avoid Plagiarism

Plagiarism is "to present another person’s ideas, writing, artistic work, creations, etc. (including those generated by Artificial Intelligence or AI tools or websites) as one’s own. This includes the presentation of all or part of another person’s work as something one has written, paraphrasing another’s writing without proper acknowledgement, or representing another’s work or creation as one’s own. Any use of the work of others, whether published, unpublished or posted electronically or on the web, attributed or anonymous, must include proper acknowledgement." 

       Avoid plagiarism by:

• understanding how to cite properly. (See Research Tools tab)

• See: Why Cite? and  Primary vs Secondary Sources 

• know when to work alone on an assignment -- collaborating on a test, quiz or assignment could be considered plagiarism, or cheating, if you are supposed to be working alone according to instructions.

• start fresh with almost every assignment -- do not use work from another class on a new assignment. Reusing work  is considered self- plagiarism and is still an academically dishonest.