Davis Library Plagiarism

The mission of the Davis Library Media Center is to
"empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information."
Standards for the 21st-Century Learners from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

Plagiarism: To use and pass off as one’s own the ideas or writings of another. To use passages from another’s writing without giving proper credit.

“The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.” (The Random House Dictionary)

Cheating: To deceive or defraud. To take someone else’s property by false pretense or trick. To deliberately take unfair advantage of someone.

Tips to Avoid Plagiarism

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use:

*another person's idea, opinion, or theory;
*any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge;
*quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words;
*paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.

Words, ideas or images that you do not create yourself must be properly credited.

Why? Because you are using someone else's intellectual property.

Citing your information sources acknowledges the origin of your information, and it lends credibility to your work by showing evidence of your research. It demonstrates the authenticity of your information and enables your readers to locate your information sources.

A citation is a reference to the source of an idea, information or image. A citation typically includes enough identifying information, such as the author, title, and publication format, for a reader to be able to access the original source.

Hampton City Schools have developed resource guides for students to follow as they cite sources.

Citation Machine-Web based citation tool


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The mission of the Davis Library Media Center is to "empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information." Standards for the 21st-Century Learners from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

Plagiarism	Citing A Source
Plagiarism: To use and pass off as one’s own the ideas or writings of another. To use passages from another’s writing without giving proper credit. “The unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.” (The Random House Dictionary) Cheating: To deceive or defraud. To take someone else’s property by false pretense or trick. To deliberately take unfair advantage of someone. Tips to Avoid Plagiarism To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use: another person's idea, opinion, or theory; any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings--any pieces of information--that are not common knowledge; quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.	Words, ideas or images that you do not create yourself must be properly credited. Why? Because you are using someone else's intellectual property. Citing your information sources acknowledges the origin of your information, and it lends credibility to your work by showing evidence of your research. It demonstrates the authenticity of your information and enables your readers to locate your information sources. A citation is a reference to the source of an idea, information or image. A citation typically includes enough identifying information, such as the author, title, and publication format, for a reader to be able to access the original source. Hampton City Schools have developed resource guides for students to follow as they cite sources.
	Books
	Internet
	Interview
Plagiarism in the Digital Age	Periodical
End Plagiarism	Reference Book
	Citation Machine-Web based citation tool