{"id":161,"date":"2017-07-11T23:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/?post_type=chapter&p=161"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:10:16","slug":"8-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-clinton-englishcomp\/chapter\/8-plagiarism\/","title":{"raw":"8. Plagiarism","rendered":"8. Plagiarism"},"content":{"raw":"Don't Steal Other People's Ideas<\/b>\r\n\r\nPlagiarism\u00a0<\/i>means you have presented other people's facts, ideas or words as if they were your own, \u0096 whether you did so deliberately, carelessly or unconsciously.\r\n\r\nTo avoid plagiarism in your writing, you must:\r\n\r\n\u00b7 Give credit to all sources of information.\r\n\r\n\u00b7 Credit material whether the wording was copied (and thus must be surrounded by quotation marks) or put in your own words (paraphrase).\r\n\r\nGUIDELINES FOR AVOIDING PLAGIARISM\r\n\r\n\u00b7 Do not use a source's words without placing quotation marks around those words. Although standard terminology in a field does not get quotation marks (digital thermometer, for example), you still must document the sources.\r\n\r\n\u00b7 Do not use someone else's idea, date or statistic without telling specifically where you found it.\r\n\r\n\u00b7 Do not hand in a paper that you have written for another course without your teacher's consent. Some teachers consider this to be another form of plagiarism. Of course, do not submit someone else's paper or one downloaded from the Internet.\r\n\r\nTHE RISKS\r\n\r\nyou are taking a risk If you hand in a paper that contains someone else's word or ideas without giving credit to that person. If a teacher can prove that you have plagiarized, you might fail paper or the entire course or you might be permanently expelled from the college or university. These punishments have been upheld in court.\r\n\r\nIt is easy for a teacher to spot plagiarism in a student paper. Even in a large class where the teacher may not know each student's style, the teacher will recognize the style of professional sources in a field and may even be extremely familiar with the sources you have used.\r\n\r\nVisit the following sites for additional information on plagiarism:\r\n