This course will provide you with strategies for working ethically and accurately with the texts you engage. We will discuss source use practices that prevent plagiarism, a serious academic offense that runs counter to our academic community’s core values of honesty and respect for others.

As emerging scholars, you are responsible for understanding academic integrity and should familiarize yourself with the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity.

According to the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity, plagiarism is the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research, or writing as your own. The following are some examples of plagiarism, but by no means an exhaustive list:

• Copying another person’s actual words without the use of quotation marks and footnotes attributing the words to their source.
• Presenting another person’s ideas or theories in your own words without acknowledging the source.
• Using information that is not common knowledge without acknowledging the source.
• Failing to acknowledge collaborators on homework and laboratory assignments.

Internet plagiarism includes submitting downloaded term papers or parts of term papers, paraphrasing or copying information from the internet without citing the source, and “cutting and pasting” from various sources without proper attribution.

Websites and businesses set up to sell papers to students often claim they are merely offering “information” or “research” to students and that this service is acceptable and allowed throughout academia. This is absolutely untrue. If you buy and submit “research,” drafts, summaries, abstracts, or final versions of a paper, you are committing plagiarism and are subject to stringent disciplinary action.

NB: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) without attribution or citation is a form plagiarism, and these same academic integrity policies apply.

Also see Citing Supporting Sources, Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons Basics and MLA Citation Resources.