Official Winthrop Policy: "Academic misconduct includes…presenting, as one’s own, the ideas or words of another for academic evaluation without proper acknowledgement. . . . The appropriate academic consequence for serious offenses is generally considered to be failure in the course."
"Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s thoughts, words, ideas, or lines of argument in your own work without appropriate documentation (a parenthetical citation at the end and a listing in "Works Cited")–whether you use that material in a quote, paraphrase, or summary. It is a theft of intellectual property and will not be tolerated, whether intentional or not. Any papers containing plagiarisms will receive a grade of F and in severe cases may warrant your being turned over to the student judicial system for more significant punishment."
A signal phrase (Harris ch. 47 a & b, p. 231 in the 4th edition) in the text to show where the source use starts, PLUS
A parenthetical citation at the place where the source use ends, PLUS
A complete citation in the Works Cited list at the end of the paper.
- Anything you quote directly, from whatever source
- Anything you paraphrase, from whatever source
- Anything you summarize, from whatever source
- Even something you "heard on TV" but can’t find….
- A web page ? Yes. See the FAQs handout and #36 in PHG. (The # refers to the numbered list of source forms beginning on p. 261.)
- An interview ? Yes. Use the form in Harris #45; you can substitute "telephone" for "personal" if appropriate.
- An e-mail message ? Yes. Use the form in PHG #36 or 44.
- Putting a comma into the parenthetical citation (Smith, 3) instead of (Smith 3)
- Putting the parentheses outside the punctuation "source".(Smith 3) instead of "source" (Smith 3).
- Forgetting the end quotation marks
- Forgetting the end punctuation in Works Cited.
- Leaving out a work from the Works Cited