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Ecology Writing Guide |
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Avoiding plagiarism
| Plagiarism is when a person submits someone else’s work as their own, or uses ideas or information from a resource without referencing where it came from. Plagiarism includes copying and pasting sentences from a website or a journal article into your assignment, or including ideas or information from a journal article without adding a citation. | |
The Academic Integrity Course advises you on how to avoid plagiarism, rewrite information in your own words and acknowledge sources of information. Plagiarism is embarrassing for the student, depressing for the lecturer, and has serious consequences for the student’s studies and career. Even much later in life, serious plagiarism during university studies has a way of catching up with offenders. |  |
