Quick Help: Avoiding plagiarism

• Maintain an accurate and thorough working bibliography. (12c)
• Establish a consistent note-taking system, listing sources and page numbers and clearly identifying all quotations, paraphrases, summaries, statistics, and visuals. (12g)
• Identify all quotations with quotation marks—both in your notes and in your essay. (13b)
• Be sure your paraphrases and summaries use your own words and sentence structures. (13c and d)
• Give a citation or note for each quotation, paraphrase, summary, arguable assertion or opinion, statistic, and visual from a source, including an online source. (To understand what sources to cite, see 14b; for in-text documentation, see 32c, 33c, 34c, and 35b.)
• Prepare an accurate and complete list of sources cited according to the required documentation style. (32d, 33d, 34c, and 35c)
• Plan ahead on writing assignments so that you can avoid the temptation to take shortcuts.