Plagiarism

Summary
Plagiarism
From: IU code of student rights, responsibilities, and conduct.

Plagiarism is when you copy others work without giving credit. Plagiarism is also when you hand in a paper you have already handed in before. It is very important to give credit where credit is due. If you don’t it could result in failing or in a serious case, expulsion.

You can avoid plagiarism by putting the author’s name in brackets after a quote. If you use an Internet site, the sites URL should be written after you say something that came from that site. You must give credit when you use: another person’s idea, any facts or statistics, graphs, drawings, and any piece of information that is not common knowledge.

In your paper you may use paraphrasing. Paraphrasing is where you put other people’s work in your own words. This is not plagiarism as long as it’s mostly your own ideas. However if you do not put it in your own words it will be counted as plagiarism.