Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Prevention Resources: 2. Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism

Strategies for avoiding unintentional plagiarism:

1. Get familiar with the academic honesty policy and make sure you understand it.

• UWB- Academic Integrity
• Cascadia College- Academic Honesty

2. Plan ahead. Give yourself enough time to plan, research, write, and edit your work.

3. When you need help or clarification, ask!

4. Document your research as you write. It's difficult and time-consuming to retrace your research after the fact.

Text-based Tutorials

• Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue Online Writing Lab)
• Plagiarism (University of North Carolina)
• Academic Integrity Tutorial (University of Maryland University College)
• Academic Integrity Tutorial for Undergraduates (Fairfield University)
• Understanding Plagiarism (Vermont Tech)
• Plagiarism Online Tutorial (San Jose State University)

Practice Tests

• Plagiarism Self Test (Western Carolina University)
• Exercises from Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism (Cornell University)
• How to Recognize Plagiarism practice test (Indiana University's School of Education)

Video Tutorials

• PRIMO Database: Showcases peer-reviewed online instructional materials maintained by the PRIMO Committee of the ACRL Instruction Section. Example search: Click on "Search Database," search for plagiarism. Browse the types of Categories and Intended Audiences listed on the Search Database page. 
• You Quote It, You Note It! (Acadia University)