John B. Cade Library
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
Copyright Basics
- Copyright Basics HandoutCopyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States
(title 17, U.S.Code) to the authors of “original works of authorship,” including
literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works. This
protection is available to both published and unpublished works.
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is using other's ideas or words without acknowledging the source of information.
SU & Academic Integrity
Southern University and A & M College defines academic dishonesty as premeditated cheating, which is defined as conscious, preplanned, deliberate cheating with materials prepared in advance.
Plagiarism vs. Copyright Infringement
Plagiarism is using someone else's work without giving proper credit - a failure to cite adequately.
Copyright infringement is using someone else's creative work, which can include a song, a video, a movie clip, a piece of visual art, a photograph, and other creative works, without authorization or compensation, if compensation is appropriate.
Check for plagiarism
- Plagiarismchecker.comPlagiarismChecker.com allows you to search for several phrases from your paper at the same time without having to type quotation marks or special operators, which most search engines require if you're trying to look for exact copies of a student's writing. This site automatically adds the quotation marks and special operators for you.
- Plagiarism ChecklistUse this checklist to keep track of your activities as you work with sources and as you
integrate information and ideas from your sources into your project document. - GrammarlyGrammarly is an online grammar and spelling checker that improves communication by helping users find and correct writing mistakes.
- QuetextQuetext is a free intelligent plagiarism detection software. Simply input your text, and it will be analyzed based on its lexical frequencies, matching phrases, word-choice, and many other important factors. Your input text is mapped into our internal network where it is compared against the entire internet and other databases. Our algorithm is designed to ignore phrases wrapped in quotations and statistically common phrases, in order to provide a more useful search for potential plagiarism in your text. After the process completes, your results will appear below along with any relevant sources the software has found.