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Avoiding Plagiarism: Understanding Plagiarism

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Plagiarism.org
The Citation Project: What Is Plagiarism?
Harvard Guide to Using Sources: Avoiding Plagiarism
Understanding and Preventing Plagiarism: Strategies and Resources for Students and Teachers Note: This page has quality information, but we are not promoting the larger accreditedschoolsonline.org parent website.

Citing Sources

Books for citing

MLA Handbook by The Modern Language Association of America
ISBN: 9781603295611
Publication Date: 2021-05-17
Cite Right, Third Edition by Charles Lipson
ISBN: 9780226431109
Publication Date: 2018-11-20

Credit

The content of this Guide was copied from Butler University Libraries.

Defining Plagiarism

"Plagiarism” means the appropriation of another person’s work or idea and the unacknowledged incorporation of that work or idea into one’s own work offered for credit."

From LSCPA 2020 - 2021 Student Handbook

Types of Plagiarism

Ten Types of Unoriginal Work:

Source: TurnItIn.

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