Plagiarism

Posted: May 7, 2015

Plagiarism is a serious offense and students must ensure that all work passed in is their own and is properly cited.  A valuable resource on the topic ishttp://www.plagiarism.org/ From the website:All of the following are considered plagiarism:turning in someone else's work as your owncopying words or ideas from someone else without giving creditfailing to put a quotation in quotation marksgiving incorrect information about the source of a quotationchanging words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving creditcopying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)