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Plagiarism
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"Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to,
intentionally or unintentionally failing to quote
and cite words, information, and/or ideas taken
from a source(s) in accordance with a
citation style approved by the faculty member
and/or inadequately paraphrasing."
2024-2025 Collin College Student Handbook, Chapter 7
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Plagiarism
"The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own."
"Plagiarism," Oxford English Dictionary, 2020
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Give credit when you use
- Someone else's idea
- Someone else's facts, graphics, charts
- Someone else's words
Ways to give credit where credit is due
- Put others' exact words in quotation marks
- Acknowledge others as a source in your text
- List others in your List of Works Cited
To avoid plagiarism
- Plan ahead for presentations and papers
- Use quotation marks liberally in your notes
- Keep copies of source text
- Write full source information on copy
- Paraphrase in your own words
- Check your paraphrase against the source
Whom to ask for help
To learn more about avoiding plagiarism, check out:
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