Plagiarism
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Plagiarism
The Graduate Center Student Handbook outlines the school's commitment to academic honesty and its expectations that students adhere to that commitment. Part of that commitment is avoiding plagiarism.
Plagiarism is using other's words and ideas without acknowledgement regardless of original format.
Avoiding Plagiarism
The same rules for avoiding plagiarism of print sources also apply to the World Wide Web:
- If you quote verbatim from a print source, web site or refer to ideas in print or on a web site, use quotation marks. Cite the source. Use a standard style guide to clearly point to the source of information.
- If you paraphrase text or other intellectual effort, cite the source. Compare your paraphrasing to the original text to avoid accidental plagiarism.
- If you want to use results of a study done by another or any information or graphics, charts, etc. from a print or web page, you must also provide information about the source of this information. In some cases, it is also a good idea to request permission from the author or from the owner of the web site or web page before you use that information.
See Avoiding and Detecting Plagiarism, A Guide for Faculty and Students With Examples, prepared by the Offices of the Associate Provost and Student Affairs, for a more thorough review of this topic.