What Is Plagiarism?
According to the Las Positas College Academic Honesty Statement, Plagiarism is defined as "using another's work (whether printed, electronic, or spoken) without crediting him or her."
(http://www.laspositascollege.edu/facultystaff/honesty.php )
You must cite the sources that you use to avoid plagiarism.
These are examples of plagiarism:
- Submitting the whole of another's work as one's own (this includes submitting another student's paper or a paper obtained from a commercial term paper service as one's own);
- Using the exact wording of a source without putting that wording in quotation marks and citing it;
- Paraphrasing the wording of a source without citing it; and
- Summarizing the ideas of a source without citing it.
