What is Plagiarism?
Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own without giving proper credit to the sources you have used.
So have you ever committed plagiarism? After completing this tutorial, you may be surprised to learn that the answer is yes. Plagiarism is often unintentional, because students are not aware of all the ways they can accidentally plagiarize.
Through completing the self-test you have learned that there are several different forms of plagiarism, some obvious, and some quite tricky. We're sure you already knew that buying a paper online or re-submitting a friend's paper are forms of plagiarism, but did you know that you can also commit plagiarism by:
- Using someone else's idea (even if you express it in your own words) and not citing the original source?
- Forgetting quotation marks?
- Using the same paper for two different classes without permission?
See the "Resources" section at the end of this tutorial for links to the relevant policies and rules about plagiarism.