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Plagiarism Prevention and Academic Integrity Resources: About Plagiarism

Infomation about plagiarism, citations, and paraphrasing.

This guide serves as a starting place for resources on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism. In this guide you will find:

Definitions of plagiarism and academic integrity
Shoreline Community College's policies relating to plagiarism and academic integrity
Plagiarism tutorials and resources
How to credit your sources: guides and resources
Resources on quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing information from other sources in your assignments
Where to get support

Definitions

Shoreline Community College defines Plagiarism as...

"Plagiarism includes taking and using as one’s own, without proper attribution, the ideas, writings, or work of another person in completing an academic assignment. Prohibited conduct may also include the unauthorized submission for credit of academic work that has been submitted for credit in another course."

Policies for Students - Shoreline Community College
“Policies for Students - Shoreline Community College - Acalog ACMSTM.” Accessed February 2, 2022.

Academic integrity is...

"the commitment to and demonstration of honest and moral behavior in an academic setting. This is most relevant at the university level as it relates to providing credit to other people when using their ideas. In simplest terms, it requires acknowledging the contributions of other people. Failure to provide such acknowledgement is considered plagiarism." (2022).

Writing Center, University at Chapel Hill
The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License

Nobody Likes a copycat: The ethical use of information
Plagiarism Guide from La Trobe University

Shoreline CC's Policies

Shoreline College's Policy on Plagiarism
It is common for academic institutions to have their own unique policies when it comes to plagiarism. Read the one for Shoreline Community College.
Shoreline CC Academic Dishonesty Policy
Academic dishonesty section on Shoreline Community College's Student Policies page.

Examples

It's important to be aware of what is considered plagiarism. 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

About this Guide

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

Plagiarism Guide -- Bristol Community College

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