Let’s Talk About Plagiarism
What is Plagiarism?
- Incorrectly paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting, or failing to cite something is plagiarism (see WVU Policy on Student Academic Integrity).
- Plagiarism is about ethical source use.
- When you analyze or write about someone else’s work, you enter into the Conversation.
- So you must acknowledge what you are saying and also what someone else is saying.
Why Do We Cite?
- Your intellectual property is your original ideas.
- Anyone else’s original ideas are their intellectual property.
- Citing is how we acknowledge the intellectual property of others.
- You wouldn’t steal a person’s physical property, so you shouldn’t steal their intellectual property either.
Eberly Writing Studio
- We would love to help you with this at the Eberly Writing Studio!
- We can help with note-taking strategies, paper revision and editing, citations, research papers, brainstorming, presentation techniques, and speeches, among many other skills.
See “Paraphrasing and Summarizing Using APA Style Handout” for citing instructions!