RETIRED - Copyright: Avoiding Plagiarism

Information on Plagiarism from the UNC Dean of Students Office

Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue OWL)

Definition of Plagiarism

"The act of taking the writings of another person and passing them off as one's own."
Encyclopedia Britannica
(More from Indiana University's Definition of Plagiarism)

UNC's Policy on Plagiarism

• From UNC's Student Handbook:
  • Student Code of Conduct
  • "Students who are judged to have engaged in some form of academic misconduct may be subject to (1) a zero or an “F” on the work in question, (2) an “F” in the course, (3) other academic penalties as outlined in the professor’s course requirements and expectations, (4) disciplinary action as specified in the Sanctions for Misconduct section below, or (5) any combination thereof. Procedural due process, including the right to appeal, is to be followed in making a determination of whether academic misconduct has occurred."

Information for Faculty

• Designing Effective Writing Assignments (From University of Maryland )
• Use the plagiarism detection tool, Safe Assignment, which works with the Blackboard Learning Environment, to prevent plagiarism.
• Contact your Subject Librarian and invite him or her to offer an instructional session on avoiding plagiarism.

Information for Students

• Cite your sources
  • APA Style Help
  • MLA Formatting and Style Guide (from The OWL at Purdue)
  • Chicago/Turabian Documentation (from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • CSE Documentation (from The Writing Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Get help from the bibliographic management tool Noodle Bib for creating APA and MLA style reference lists.
• Get help from the UNC Writing Center