What is plagiarism?
Answer
Plagiarism is using the words and ideas of someone else and presenting them as your own. There can be serious consequences for plagiarism and other types of academic misconduct.
To avoid accusations of plagiarism, you must clearly reference other people's work.
You should reference when:
- You quote another person's spoken or written words
- You paraphrase another person's spoken or written words
- You refer to another person’s ideas, words, or opinions
- You use any kind of information that is not common knowledge (e.g., facts, graphs, drawings)