Topic outline
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Plagiarism = using someone else's ideas as if they were your ideas. It's a kind of stealing.- a serious problem for all students
- has serious consequences, such as FAILING a course or even BEING EXPELLED from university
- particularly difficult area for international students
- learn about plagiarism in the below links (there are also exercises!)
- If you need more help, ask your teachers or ask the teacher in the LSU
- Also look in the section - "Referencing Guides"
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- information pages and tutorial on these important topics
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Learn more about PLAGIARISM on this website.
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In this link, click on "Plagiarism" and then work through the different sections. Then do the exercises.
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Grammar Bytes! Presents :Plagiarism: Avoid Academic Theft for Research Success - Learn what plagiarism is and how to avoid it!
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- published by Colorado Community Colleges Online
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Colorado Community Colleges Online presents an interactive tutorial with five case studies. The purpose of this tutorial is to enable students to
- recognize the Academic Integrity Policy.
- describe academic integrity violations and associated procedures.
- evaluate options for maintaining academic integrity.
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Great tutorial! - Explains the basics of avoiding plagiarism by learning why, when, and how to cite (from Acadia University Canada). also, check out the other tutorials in the "How to Research" section!
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From ed.ted.com - lessons on various topics from a great website! The punishable perils of plagiarism - Melissa Huseman D’Annunzio
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This is a paper by Lisa R. Wilkinson, an ESL teacher, published in The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XIV, No. 7, July 2008. In this article, she describes some of the problems that students from other countries have with copying and plagiarising, especially in actually understanding why English-speaking countries think that plagiarism is such a bad crime. This article may be aimed more towards teachers but it is a good article for students to read as well.