AVOIDING PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism occurs when one steals or uses the ideas or writings of another and presents these writings or ideas as his or her own.
Stephen Wilhoit’s article titled "Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism" in College Teaching (Fall 1994, pages161-164) lists the following types of plagiarism:
- "Buying a paper for a research service or term paper mill.
- Turning in another student's work without that student's knowledge.
- Turning in a paper a peer has written for the student.
- Copying a paper from a source text without proper acknowledgment.
- Copying materials from a source text, supplying proper documentation, but leaving out quotation marks.
- Paraphrasing materials from a source text without appropriate documentation."
And, now with the Internet, we need to add another type of plagiarism:
- Turning in a paper from a "free term paper" website.
The web sites listed here will further define plagiarism and will offer the tips to students on how to avoid plagiarism.
- Avoiding Plagiarism - from OWL - The Online Writing Lab from Purdue University.
- How Not to Plagiarize - from the University of Toronto and their code of behavior on academic matters.