Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism
If you follow these general practices when creating your own work, you can avoid plagiarism and copyright violations.
Always remember to...
- Provide full attribution when using other people's work. This includes
- text
- images
- musical works
- sound recordings
- audio visual content
- Avoid copying & pasting directly from others. Your work should come from your own ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc.
- Cite sources when paraphrasing or using direct quotes from someone else's work.
- Keep track of sources used in an assignment or project. Use a citation tool like RefWorks to manage sources and create reference lists.