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Bibliographies: Is it plagiarism?

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What is plagiarism?

 

What exactly is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is taking someone else’s ideas, words or works (such as music or images) and presenting them as your own. This may be done intentionally or unintentionally. Either way it is taken very seriously at Monte and you can fail assignments if you plagiarise.

The following are all considered acts of plagiarism:

  • turning in someone else's work as your own
  • copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  • giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  • changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed, and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source, is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.

Source of this article: http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html

Monte helps you avoid plagiarism by giving you access to MyBib.com to correctly acknowledge sources and create citations and TURNITIN to help you check your own work for inadvertent plagiarism.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WEBSITES

Any work produced by or through AI websites, no matter how small a percentage of an assignment it is, is not considered to be work authentically done by you. Any AI-generated or edited text, images or content must be credited in the same way as any other source. If you use AI, you must make it clear through referencing which words or content are authentically your own, and which are produced or edited by AI. Note that as it is impossible to know what online content has been 'scraped' by AI sites to produce content, AI can not be considered a reliable research source. 
 

Is it plagiarism?

 

Avoiding plagiarism

Tutorial: You Quote it, You Note it (Vaughan Memorial Library)

Tutorial: All about plagiarism (University of Texas)

All my own work

HSC: All My Own Work is designed to help HSC students use ethical practices when finding and using information for their HSC studies.