[3:00 min.]

This tutorial explains the reasons why you need to acknowledge the work of others in your writing.

[Tutorial created by the Cooperative Library Instruction Project]

We have a separate guide with tutorials and handouts just for students about academic integrity, plagiarism and TurnItIn. Please feel free to share this guide with your students, add it to your course syllabus or link to it from Canvas.

Academic Integrity for Students

To avoid plagiarizing you need to learn how to incorporate some writing techniques into your research and writing process.  These techniques include:

• Quoting
• Paraphrasing
• Summarizing
• Why it's important to cite your sources