Plagiarism

                                   What is plagiarism?
                                   Plagiarism is the appropriation of ideas or the copying of the language of another
                                   writer without formal acknowledgement (Bolner, 379).   In other words, plagiarism
                                   is the copying of another person's literary, artistic or musical work as one's own,
                                   and plagiarism, whether purposely or inadvertently, is unethical (Dunlap, 505).

                                   How to Avoid Plagiarism? (Kirszner,
                                   You must provide bibliographic citations whenever you
                                    >Copy another person's idea, words, theory, etc.
                                    >Copy any information that is not common knowledge, such as
                                       facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, conclusions, etc.
                                    >Copy actual quotations, written or verbal, of another person
                                    > Paraphrase another person's spoken or written words 

                                    Checklist for Avoiding Plagiarism (Kirszner, 621-22)
                                     >Take careful notes.  Record information from your sources
                                        carefully and accurately.
                                     >Enclose words borrowed from sources inside circled
                                       quotation marks.  Enclose personal comments in brackets.
                                     >Separate your ideas from those of your sources.  Introduce
                                        borrowed information with acknowledgement, followed by
                                        documentation.
                                     >Enclose all direct quotations used in your paper within
                                        quotation marks.
                                     >Review paraphrases and summaries in your paper. Make sure
                                       that your paraphrasing are in your own words and that any
                                       distinctive words or phrases from a source are place in quotation
                                       marks.
                                     >Document all quoted material, all paraphrases and summaries of
                                        your sources.
                                     >Document all facts that are open to dispute and / or are not common
                                        knowledge.
                                     >Document all opinions, conclusions, figures, tables, statistics, graphs,
                                       and charts taken from sources.
                                     >Provide documentation for information retrieved via the World Wide
                                        Web.

                                                                         Sources Consulted
                                       Bolner, Myrtle S. and Gayle A. Poirier.  Research Process: Books and
                                               Beyond.   2nd ed.  Dubuque, IO: Kendall / Hunt, 2001.
                                       Dunlap, Kent.  "Plagiarism."  World Book Encyclopedia. 2005.
                                       Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell.  Holt Handbook. 5th ed.
                                                Fort Worth, TX:  Harcourt Brace College Pub., 1999.