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Plagiarism
According to the Oxford English dictionary, PLAGIARISM is: The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. Plagiarism can have serious consequences in schools or in the workplace ranging from warnings to expulsion.
This page provides links to resources, tutorials and handouts designed to help define, recognize, and avoid plagiarism.
- Plagiarism OverviewOWL - Purdue Online Writing Lab
- Plagiarism: Avoid the ConsequencesStudent’s guide on avoiding plagiarism. (OnlineColleges.net)
- Plagiarism - The Writing Center (UNC)The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tutorials
- How to Recognize PlagiarismExamples, cases, practice, and certification tests. (Indiana University--Bloomington)
- How to Avoid Plagiarism: An Interactive Literacy TutorialReference Department of the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Using Copyrighted Works: Fair Use and Scholarship
- Copyright ResourcesThis guide contains information and resources to support KU students, faculty, and staff in their efforts to use and create copyrighted works in teaching and learning, research, and creative activity.
Plagiarism Video
Tutorial - Help with avoiding plagiarism
https://fdocuments.net/document/principles-of-paraphrasing-harvard-u-instructgutmanlibrary-2011-3-2.html?page=2
What is plagiarism anyway?
What is plagiarism? There isn't just one definition.Learn key ways to avoid plagiarism after reviewing these 10 types.
Understand how to paraphrase a text, how to document or cite a source and how to research so the paper contains original content.
(YouTube video by WriteCheckVideos. Originally published by Turnitin as "The Plagiarism Spectrum: Tagging 10 types of unoriginal work" at http://turnitin.com/assets/en_us/media/plagiarism_spectrum.php . Original source: Turnitin.com )
How to Avoid Plagiarism
- Academic IntegrityKU Writing Center
Books about Research Ethics
Research Ethics by Call Number: Q180.55.M67 R465 2012 (Anschutz Library)ISBN: 9780521187084Publication Date: 2013-01-03
Research Ethics for Scientists by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781119978879Publication Date: 2011-09-19
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