How to Avoid Plagiarism
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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: 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
Plagiarism Video
Tutorials
- How to Recognize PlagiarismExamples, cases, practice, and certification tests. (Indiana University--Bloomington)
Teaching Resources - Lesson Plans and Handouts
- Preventing Plagiarism - Purdue Online Writing LabThese OWL resources contain lesson plans and activities to help teachers instruct students on how to understand and avoid plagiarism.
- Contextualizing Plagiarism - Purdue Online Writing LabThese resources provide lesson plans and handouts for teachers interested in teaching students how to understand plagiarism. The lesson plans in this section include activities that help students define plagiarism, assess their attitude toward plagiarism, and create a class plagiarism policy.
- Avoiding Plagiarism - Purdue Online Writing LabThese resources provide lesson plans and handouts for teachers interested in teaching students how to avoid plagiarism.