All work submitted for this course is to be the result of your own thoughts and research.

  1. What is plagiarism?  Using another’s ideas, organization, and/or wording without giving credit to the source.

  2. Plagiarism is cheating!

  3. Examples of plagiarism:

    •       Allowing another student to copy your work.
    •       Copying another student’s work.
    •       Copying from any source (e.g., Message Board, paper, article, or book).
    •       Copying and pasting from the Internet.

  4. Penalties for plagiarism:

First Offence: Fail the assignment.

Second Offence: Meet with a school administrator.

Third Offence: Removed from the course.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Writers sometimes plagiarize ideas from outside sources without realizing that they are doing so. Put simply, you plagiarize if you present other writer's words and ideas as your own. You do not plagiarize if you "provide citations for all direct quotations and paraphrases, for borrowed ideas, and for facts that do not belong to general knowledge" (Crews and Van Sant, 407).