Plagiarism
One of the most difficult skills to
develop in college writing is using other people's ideas appropriately.
It is important in our writing both to show what our research has provided
and to clearly identify
what is our own contribution. A major requirement of scholarly work is to
give credit where it
is due. If you use someone's words or ideas without acknowledgement, you are
in fact, plagiarizing.
The academic penalty is a grade of "F" for the paper or case study.
In some cases, it may result in a
"F" for the entire course. Make sure that you properly acknowledge
the fact you are taking material
from another source by proper footnoting. At a minimum, enclose the material
that is not your own
in quotation marks This at least alerts the instructor that the material enclosed
in the quotation marks,
comes from another source.