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Accounting/Taxation: Plagiarism

This LibGuide was created to provide library resources to accounting majors.

Plagiarism

Detect Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is using other's ideas or words without acknowledging the source of information.

Tip: Avoiding Plagiarism

Give credit whenever you use......

  • Another person's idea, opinion, or theory
  • Facts, statisitics, graphs, drawings
  • Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words

Check for plagiarism

Protection for creators of original work

Examples of copyright resources used in academia

  • Books
  • Works from a chapter in a book
  • Journal articles
  • Newspaper articles
  • Websites 
  • Images (i.e.,pictures, art)
  • Government documents
  • Magazine articles
  • Reference works