Plagiarism Policy

Plagiarism is the dishonest presentation of the work of others as if it were one’s own. Authors commit plagiarism when they present, without proper acknowledgement, all or part of another person’s work as if it were their own. Plagiarism violates the expectations of trust and honesty necessary for academic and scholarly work in an ethical community, and hence, is a serious research misconduct.

Plagiarism can have several forms, including but not limited to:

Re-writing someone’s work without properly citing sources
Using the exact words of another writer in part of a paper with or without citation
Copying materials from Internet or other electronic resources without proper citation of sources
Including the paraphrased or summarized idea of another writer without acknowledging its source
Taking passages from their own previous work with or without adding citations (self-plagiarism)
Interweaving various sources together in the work without citation
Citing some, but not all, passages that should be cited
Melding together cited and uncited sections of the piece
Providing proper citations, but failing to change the structure and wording of the borrowed ideas enough (close paraphrasing)
Inaccurately citing a source