Most people don’t worry about the “copyright police.” However, the ease of copying electronic material is leading to renewed concern about protecting the rights of authors. Although the Internet allows writers to easily cut and paste the work of others, the Internet also makes it easier to detect this practice.
In colleges and universities there is increasing concern about plagiarism. Plagiarism may be intentional, such as when a student purchases or copies a paper from the Internet. It may also be unintentional, as when a student neglects to correctly cite the source of information used in a research paper.
Plagiarism is theft, cheating, stealing.
Plagiarism is considered a serious violation of academic integrity, and it may result in repercussions ranging from loss of a grade on a paper to expulsion.
The following websites, from the UM Academic Integrity Website, will help you learn how to write so that you avoid plagiarism.
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