Plagiarism
What you can do
- You can use another person's writing and ideas if you acknowledge them as the author within the text and in a bibliography.
- If you quote their work directly you must use "quotation" marks.
- If you change the words but not the ideas you must still make reference to the author.
What you cannot do
- If you copy, cut and paste, paraphrase any writings, ideas or concepts without citing the author or stating from where you got the information, you are plagiarising. That is, you are stealing another person's intellectual property.
- You cannot copy directly from a piece of writing and use it as your own even if you acknowledge the author. For example you cannot download or photocopy an encyclopaedia article and present it as your own work.
- You cannot get your parents to write your assignment.
- You cannot copy your friend's work.
Links to sites on plagiarism
- Jamie McKenzie's FNO "The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age"
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Plagiary and the Art of Skilful Citation by John Rodgers
- Indiana University - Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
How to cite or reference within the text?
In text referencing and bow to compile a bibliography
Updated: September 2007