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The word "plagiarism" has its origin in a Greek word meaning "man-stealing" or "kidnapping" and while its meaning has changed over the years, it is still a serious offense in the world of research and education. As defined today, plagiarism is the use of another person's work without giving proper credit. It can happen as a result of a conscious effort to deceive, or as a result of careless research methods. Either way, the results are the same; your finished paper will be weaker, your understanding of the subject matter will be incomplete, and you'll run the risk of loss of credit for the assignment and perhaps the course.

• You turn in another person's paper as your own.
• You copy portions of another person's paper into your own.
• You copy source material into your paper without quotation marks and without an in-text citation to author and page.
• You paraphrase source material into your paper without an in-text citation to author and page.
• You summarize source material without a clear reference to the original source.

Plagiarism violates the academic code of conduct which demands that you give credit to others for their words and ideas when you use them in your own work. The same rule applies to drawings, photographs, paintings, or other original creations. To avoid becoming a plagiarist, you cannot present as your own work the words, music, drawings, photographs, or paintings of another person.

To avoid plagiarism, follow the few rules below:

• Introduce any quotation or paraphrase with the name of the authority, or place the name and page number inside a parentheses at the end of the citation.
• Enclose all direct quotations within quotation marks.
• Paraphrase material in your own style and language; do not simply rearrange sentence phrases.
• At the end of each summary, paraphrase, or direct quotation, provide a specific page number within parentheses. If you have not introduced the material with the name of the author, include the name here.

For every source mentioned within the paper you must provide a full reference listing within your list of references. For help with citations and references, consult the CHS Writers' Guide