This guide will introduce students to the concept of plagiarism and strategies for avoiding it.

All of the following are considered plagiarism:

• turning in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

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This guide was adapted from one originally created by James Emond, Reference & Instruction Librarian at Bristol Community College