Avoiding Plagiarism

View this Prezi for an overview of plagiarism and how to cite your sources.

What is plagiarism?

Why do I have to cite my sources?

Do:

• Use quotation marks around all direct quotations and cite the material.
• Give credit to any information that you paraphrased from another source.
• Give credit to any information that is not common knowledge (common knowledge is information that most people know or information that can be easily found in many sources).
• Cite any:
• graphs, drawings, pictures
• audio or video source
• information taken from online sources

Don't:

• Copy and paste information without using direct quotation marks and citing the source.
• Mix words from an author with your own words and not give credit.
• Use a paper written by someone else and submit it as your own work.

(Thanks for the Pingry School for a great list of do's and dont's)