Plagiarism Writing English

This category contains sites that provide information, tips, and guides to help kids and teens understand and avoid plagiarism, which is using another person's words or ideas without giving them proper credit.

• What is Plagiarism at Indiana University - The Indiana University definition of plagarism and an online quiz with 10 examples of student writing to judge.
  
• Education World: Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism - Tells what plagiarism is and gives advice for taking notes and quoting sources.
  
• School of Education, Indiana University: How to Recognize Plagiarism - A tutorial with many examples, practice questions with feedback, and a test.
  
• Purdue University: Avoiding Plagiarism - Designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism. Available in printer friendly html and pdf versions.
  
• Integrating Sources into Text - Explains how to introduce a source and note borrowed information to reduce the chances of unintentional plagiarism.
  
• What Is Plagiarism? - Explains that plagiarism is a form of cheating because it's stealing another person's ideas. Tells how to use Internet sources and other references when you're doing homework or a report.
  
• Copyright Rights and Wrongs - Students learn the importance and procedures for respecting intellectual property and how to ask permission to use images on the web. Site designed by 5th and 6th grade students for Thinkquest Junior.
  
• Plagiarism - College professor's tutorial explains what plagiarism is and why it is wrong, and refutes the excuses often used to try to justify it.
  
  

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