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| Plagiarism: What is
it and how to avoid it Introduction Last Updated: 2/7//06[bsb] |
According to Dr. Donald McCabe of the Center for Academic Integrity, plagiarism is a big problem, especially in high schools and colleges. New research, released in June 2005, of 50,000 undergraduates at more than 60 colleges showed the following results.
Moreover, the Internet has made this issue even more prominent by offering papers for sale and for free and by providing easily accessible information online, some of which is legitimate and some of which is not. In addition, some students think that information on the Internet is free and, therefore, does not need to be cited. Everything you use in research, whether from a print resource like a book or an electronic resource like an article from a full text database or a page from the Internet, must be cited in your footnotes and works cited page. When we talk about citing, we mean that you provide
information so someone else can locate the specific article, book, or web site that you
used in your research. A citation consists of brief information like author, title,
publisher, place of publication, publication date, etc. and, in the case of electronic
information, an URL as well. (Please see the handouts page for students for a
handout on how to cite electronic information.) |
