ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS

A Little Background ... You are plagiarizing if you… Change or rearrange a few words from the original text to paraphrase it. Don't use quotation marks when you use word-for-word information in your paper. Copy another student’s paper and turn it in as your own. Download a paper from a term paper website and submit it as your own. Copy and paste sections of a website directly into your paper without acknowledging the source of the information. Plagiarism and copyright infringement are not the same. The difference?
CBB Plagiarism Resource Site A great overview, from Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby Colleges. What is Plagiarism? (Rutgers) A painless (and funny) introduction to plagiarism.
To Avoid Plagiarism? Straight Talk About Plagiarism from Bedford/St. Martin's Is it Plagiarism Yet? from the The OWL at Purdue
Online Tutorials Cite Source from the librarians at Trinity College, Hartford "...understand and practice the ethical use of information in a range of formats...and across disciplines. ...citation formats for The Chicago Manual of Style, The ACS Style Guide, the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, and Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)." A Fair(y) Use Tale Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous review of copyright principles. PlagiCourt from Fairfield University What plagiarism is, legal and ethical issues, and strategies to avoid it You Quote It, You Note It!
Additional Resources General The Little Book of Plagiarism Richard A. Posner Pantheon, January 2007 " A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars." (Pantheon Books) Link Collections ACRL Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism: A Guide to Selected Resources on the Web (Association of College and Research Libraries)

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