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Avoid the pitfalls that could lead to plagiarism

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Academic Integrity

Academic work is ​a shared enterprise that depends on a commitment to truthfulness.

UIW students are expected to abide by the standards of intellectual integrity that govern the broader academic community to which the University belongs. These standards include:

  • The origin of the ideas, data, and forms of expression that you employ in your own work
  • Giving due credit to the sources from which you have borrowed, and
  • Affording your reader a means of consulting those sources directly

Plagiarism Defined

SOURCE: Oxford English Dictionary

"The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft."

Examples

If you do not cite the source, whether you use just a few words or whole paragraphs, any of the following would constitute plagiarism:

Copying from a website, such as Wikipedia.

Copying from an article in a magazine, journal, or newspaper.

Copying from a book.

Copying someone else's work.

Any form of "copying & pasting" without citing.

Rewording (paraphrasing) a source, or someone else's work, without citing it.

Failing to place quotation marks around a direct quote.

Fabricating citations or providing incorrect references.

Buying an essay online and turning it in as your own.

Using a previously written essay from one class in another class.

Using generative AI, like ChatGPT.

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