Identifying and Avoiding Plagiarism
Avoiding Plagiarism
Plagiarism--whether intentional or unintentional--is grounds for a 0 on the assignment and possible a 0 for the course.
See the information (and videos) below to assist you with how to avoid plagiarism.
College students often struggle with understanding how to use sources
Plagiarism
Plagiarism--whether intentional or unintentional--is grounds for a 0 on the assignment and possible a 0 for the course.
See the information (and videos) below to assist you with how to avoid plagiarism.
Plagiarism--A Quick Introduction
Avoid Plagiarism
- Keep careful research notes and keep track of citations and where your information comes from.
- Copy and paste judiciously.
- Remember that most of the words you are using should be yours. [Quotes from sources should be used to bolster your ideas--not replace your ideas or simply add to the word count.]
- If you paraphrase or quote, you need to cite. Other people's ideas need to be credited as well as their quoted words.
The Dark Side of Plagiarism
College students often struggle with understanding how to use sources effectively and correctly.
Unless you're Darth Vader, make sure you're citing your sources.
5 Tips to Avoid Accidental Plagiarism
College students often struggle with understanding how to use sources
Plagiarism
Whether intentional or not, plagiarism is submitting work that is not the student’s own thoughts and opinions but has originated from another source and is not properly documented.
Examples
of plagiarism: (this is not a comprehensive list)
- Copying from the Internet or books
- Having someone else write your paper
- Sharing answers
- Rearranging someone else’s words to use in your own writing
- Downloading Internet papers
- Copying another student’s work: part or all
- Reusing a paper you wrote for another class
Liberty University Online, is committed to ensuring that students are properly equipped (through lessons, textbook readings, learning labs, and instructors) to follow accepted guidelines of research, to properly cite sources used, and receive appropriate feedback and consequences to guide the students in the right direction when they fail to do so. At the beginning class, students are provided with instruction for properly citing reference sources and practical measures to avoid plagiarism. All writings that require research and source citation must have a works cited (or references) page in order for students to receive credit. These writings also require the use of in-text citation called “parenthetical documentation” (MLA and APA citation style) or footnotes/endnotes (Turabian citation style). Writing that does not comply may be returned to the student for re-submission before any grading takes place.
To ensure academic integrity, teachers use Safe Assign—a national plagiarism detection database. Teachers electronically submit assignments, essays, and projects, to the database and receive a report detailing the level of plagiarism (if any) included in the material and the possible sources from which the material was copied. When plagiarism is identified in a student’s writing, the plagiarized work will be returned to the student.
- Consequences for plagiarized writings range from resubmitting the report for a maximum grade of 80% for a first offense to no course credit for repeat offenses.
Additional Resources
Avoiding Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship (University of California, Davis)
Explanation of plagiarism and guidelines for correctly citing and paraphrasing sources, from the Office of Student Judicial Affairs at the University of California, Davis.
A Bedford/St. Martin's handout on the importance of academic honesty and ways to avoid plagiarism when writing a paper.
Avoiding Plagiarism (Duke University Libraries)
Discussion of the personal pressures of college that can lead to plagiarism.
Destroy the plagiarism goblins by demonstrating your knowledge of the proper use of sources.
Interactive tutorial defining plagiarism and explaining correct use of common knowledge, quotes, and paraphrases.
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