"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

Plagiarism

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

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

• Your professor
• Anthony Peterson Centers for Academic Assistance
• Library's Reference Librarians

• What is Plagiarism, Georgetown University Honor Council
• Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty, Modern Languge Association
• Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It, Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services