Communication Toolbox: Avoiding Plagiarism

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/fallacies/
This handout discusses common logical fallacies that you may encounter in your own writing or the writing of others. The handout provides definitions, examples, and tips on avoiding these fallacies.

https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/
In academic writing, it is considered plagiarism to draw any idea or any language from someone else without adequately crediting that source in your paper. It doesn't matter whether the source is a published author, another student, a Web site without clear authorship, a Web site that sells academic papers, or any other person: Taking credit for anyone else's work is stealing, and it is unacceptable in all academic situations, whether you do it intentionally or by accident.

http://www.umuc.edu/writingcenter/plagiarism/
If you are like most students, you want credit for what you have done, not for what someone else has done. Learning how to manage and properly cite resource materials in a researched paper will make the distinction between your work and that of your sources clear to the reader and will help you to avoid plagiarism.

http://lib.usm.edu/plagiarism_tutorial.html

When a student avoids plagiarizing someone else's work, she or he doesn't just avoid doing something wrong. By correctly citing other people's works and ideas, a student has also agreed to engage in the kind of scholarly communication that is part of academic life. Citing another person's words is a way of giving credit to that person, and of acknowledging the importance of that person's work to one's own ideas. After all, you wouldn't want someone quoting your words or using your ideas without giving you credit, would you?

Research-based writing in American institutions, both educational and corporate, is filled with rules that writers, particularly beginners, aren't aware of or don't know how to follow. Many of these rules have to do with research and proper citation. Gaining familiarity with these rules, however, is critically important, as inadvertent mistakes can lead to charges of plagiarism, which is the uncredited use (both intentional and unintentional) of somebody else's words or ideas.

Films on Demand - Segment from "CyberEthics (2:07 min)
Though plagiarism and cheating in school has been around for centuries, today's new technology leads to new ways of cheating. Many students copy articles directly from the Internet and pass the work off as their own.

Films on Demand (21.36 min)
This video examines the behaviors that constitute plagiarism, their consequences, and the best ways to avoid them. Showing how accidental copying as well as willful plagiarism can occur, the program lays out the dangers of cheating, then illustrates the pitfalls of nonattribution and patch writing while showing how to properly attribute and paraphrase a lengthy quotation.

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