“Plagiarism is the attempt to present research, ideas and writing of another person as original work. Some guidelines for avoiding such misinterpretations are:
1. All direct quotations of any length from another author must be enclosed within quotation marks and a complete citation, using any consistent and generally accepted citation method, must be given for sources.
2. All direct quotations, while not enclosed within quotation marks, must be credited to their sources by a citation method as in guideline number one.
3. In most cases, paraphrasing or changing the words of a direct quotation, while keeping the ideas without giving credit to the original author, is considered plagiarism. Merely recasting the ideas of one author into different words does not make the ideas yours.
4. The research, ideas and writing of another student is considered to be that of another author, in the same way that they would be if the other student were an established scholar in the field of question.
5. All books, periodicals and research materials are never completely accurate. Information in one book may be contradicted in another.”
—–taken from page 167 of the Student Handbook
