What is plagiarism:
The Lynch School of Education defines plagiarism as follows: Plagiarism is the deliberate act of taking the words, ideas, data, illustrative material, or statements of someone else, without full and proper acknowledgment, and presenting them as
one’s own. Refer to the Lynch School's statement on Academic Integrity.
Avoiding plagiarism:
Take excellent notes. Plagiarism often stems from sloppy
research and subsequent rewriting rather than a deliberate desire to
cheat. Nevertheless, even unintentional failure to cite sources
correctly and honestly may constitute plagiarism. Many students
mistakenly take bad notes during the research process. They write
someone else’s text verbatim on a card or on their computer and forget
quotation marks. When they write the paper and refer to their notes,
they forget the text on the card or computer is another author’s and not
their own. Any reader who recognizes the original text believes that
the student has cheated. This can lead to tough penalties.
