Listly by Lucifer Willis
Plagiarism means presenting the words, phrases, ideas or of any borrowed language or ideas that you present in your own work. Quotation marks, followed by documentation, should be used to indicate the exact words of others.
Copyright Defined The moment an original work is fixed in a tangible medium, it is copyrighted. Therefore poems, Web pages, paintings, photographs, novels, songs, videos, computer software, or architectural drawings are copyrighted the moment the "author" has expressed herself or himself in an original work.
Students' Guide to Preventing and Avoiding Plagiarism Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary defines Plagiarism using another's words and ideas and passing them on as your own. Words, ideas, or knowledge are considered the Intellectual Property of the original author. U.S. Copyright Law protects the author.
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This page is an informal collection of Web resources on preventing and detecting plagiarism. If you discover more useful resources, please pass them along to me at mgeorge@mail.millikin.edu. Preventing Plagiarism "Thinking and Talking about Plagiarism." A Bedford/St. Martin's teaching tip with excellent information on talking to students about plagiarism and individual policies on plagiarism.
Because you want to do your best work and you want it to be your own work! If you are like most students, you want credit for what you have done, not for what someone else has done.
Instructor guide to strategies for detecting and preventing plagiarism in the classroom What is this? A tutorial which defines the scope of the plagiarism issue at Penn State and provides strategies for both discovering plagiarism and creating assignments which may be able to reduce plagiarism.