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What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work and presenting it as your own. Committing plagiarism is unethical and a breach of academic integrity.

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Types of plagiarism

Direct plagiarism (copy-and-paste plagiarism)
Global plagiarism (taking another person’s work wholesale and claiming it as your own, e.g. from essay mill)
Mosaic plagiarism (taking pieces of text from different sources and fitting them together, also: patchwork plagiarism)

Self-plagiarism (reusing your own work without acknowledging that it’s been previously submitted elsewhere)
Unintentional plagiarism (accidentally plagiarizing)

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Potential consequences �of plagiarism

Receiving a failing grade in the course
Being suspended temporarily
Being expelled from the institution

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How to avoid plagiarism

Whenever you quote, paraphrase, or reference the words, ideas, or work of someone else, give proper credit to the original source with a citation.

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What does and doesn’t require a citation

Information that is widely known by most people is considered “common knowledge” and does not need a source. Some examples of facts that are common knowledge are:

Singapore is the only place in the world that is a city, an island, and a nation, all in one.
Spandex is a synthetic fiber commonly used to manufacture sportswear.

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How to properly cite sources

Across all citation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago), citations generally occur in two places in a work:

As an in-text citation in the main text of a document
In the reference list or works cited list

In-text citations are typically brief and require only the name of the author and the publication year of the source. The reference list, or works cited list, contains the complete information about the source.

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Helpful resources

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