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"The action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one's own; literary theft." -Oxford English Dictionary

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This guide will introduce students to the concept of plagiarism, strategies for avoiding it, BCC policy on plagiarism, and citing sources.

Interactive transcript available here.

A Quick Guide to Plagiarism, via YouTube. Video created by Cape Fear Community College.

All of the following are considered 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