LibGuides: Plagiarism: What It Is

What is Plagiarism?

Simply put, plagiarism is the act of taking another's work and passing it off as your own.

This can happen on purpose -- when you knowingly put your name on work that isn't your own -- or by accident -- when you fail to include citations for your sources or format your quotes and paraphrases incorrectly. With a little bit of work, you can avoid plagiarizing within your work by following some of the guidelines listed in the links below.

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Student Code of Conduct

495C-121-050 - Prohibited student conduct

The college may impose disciplinary sanctions against a student who commits, attempts to commit, or aids, abets, incites, encourages, or assists another person to commit any act of misconduct, which includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Academic dishonesty. Any act of academic dishonesty, including cheating, plagiarism, and fabrication.
1. Cheating includes any attempt to give or obtain unauthorized assistance relating to the completion of an academic assignment or requirement.
2. Plagiarism includes taking and using as one's own, without proper attribution, the ideas, writings, or work of another person in completing an academic assignment or requirement.
3. Fabrication includes falsifying data, information, or citations in completing an academic assignment or requirement, or providing false or deceptive information to an instructor concerning the completion of an assignment or requirement, including submitting for credit without authorization academic work also submitted for credit in another course.