Plagiarism, presenting someone else's ideas or creative products as your own, is an issue we must all confront. Whether committed willfully or unintentionally, plagiarism threatens the integrity of information, knowledge and scholarship.
This is a complex issue, but please breathe easily and enjoy the lesson.
This tutorial explains what constitutes plagiarism and provides suggestions for note taking, documentation, and writing strategies that will help you avoid accidental plagiarism in your work.
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Special thanks to Fairfield Universiity for creating and maintaining the original Plagiarism Court tutorial, as well as graciously allowing reproduction, redistribution, and remixing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 