Plagiarism & Citation Resources for Faculty

What is Plagiarism?

"Plagiarism—the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research or writings as your own. Examples: Copying another person’s actual words without the use of quotation marks and/or footnotes, failure to acknowledge a source when using information that is not common knowledge or failure to acknowledge collaborators on homework or laboratory assignments."

—LaGuardia Community College Policy on Academic Integrity (PDF)

Consequences of Plagiarism:

Violations of academic integrity involves the imposition of sanctions in accordance with the College’s definitions of academic dishonesty."

—LaGuardia Community College Policy on Academic Integrity (PDF)

The Common Types of Plagiarism:

• Direct Plagiarism
• Self Plagiarism
• Mosaic Plagiarism
• Accidental Plagiarism

Details can be found here: http://www.bowdoin.edu/studentaffairs/academic-honesty/common-types.shtml

General Resources:

• Guide to citing sources and avoiding plagiarism(Duke University)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (The OWL at Purdue)

When to Cite:

• Paraphrasing and Quoting
• Internet Sources

How to cite & which citation style should I use?

The two main styles of citation in use at LaGuardia are:

• APA (American Psychological Association) for psychology and other social sciences
• MLA (Modern Language Association) for literature, arts, and humanities

Tutorials

• Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin version of tutorial/self-test
• Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Education-How to Recognize Plagiarism
• Hunter's MLA tutorial

Citation Management Tools

• EasyBib
• RefWorks
• EndNote
• Zotero
• Mendeley
• Comparison of reference management software