Plagiarism & APA
One of the main things you do in research is review literature - and it's extremely important at this stage that you understand how to avoid plagiarism and how to appropriately cite your sources.
"If you need motivation to really practice these skills in earnest, the optional resources may help. Personally, knowing I could be kicked out of my graduate programs for stealing intellectual property was enough for me to finally get the hang of it all my 1st year in my PhD program, but I wish I had practiced sooner. It definitely made that first year more stressful to not be confident in my paraphrasing skills." - Dr. B
Estimated Completion Times
- Avoiding Plagiarism Test: 15 min. (one attempt)
- APA Style Self-Test: 30 min. for initial review, 30 min. for D2L quiz
Avoiding Plagiarism
Take the appropriate level certification test found at this page. You will need to register first, be sure to save that information in case you need it later.
- Once you have passed you will receive a certificate at the email you signed up with, this can be a very helpful test for teaching you where you are weak in APA.
Additional Exploration (Optional)
Understand why these skills are so vitally important by reading some words by:
- Sophie Cormack,
- Dr. Brown, and
- TurnItIn.
Recommended Tools (from Dr. B's Lab Students):
- PaperPile - For saving, organizing and citing sources (seamless integration with Google Docs). It also can be linked to UA's library, so you never have to search for your access to pdfs of things you want to add to your personal library.
- Purdue OWL & APA's Style Blog - For checking that things are correct
- Grammarly - For double checking for plagiarism