At Quinnipiac, our community has chosen integrity as one of its guiding principles. Please follow this link to QU's Academic Integrity page.
An important aspect of maintaining academic integrity is to avoid plagiarism, which is the uncredited use (both intentional and unintentional) of someone else's words or ideas. For any questions you may have about quoting, citing, or paraphrasing, please see the following guide to understanding plagiarism from Purdue University.
According to the Academic Integrity Policy at Quinnipiac University, "plagiarism refers to representing another person’s words or ideas as one’s own in any academic exercise."
The Quinnipiac University Academic Integrity Policy states four common types of plagiarism. They are:
Academic Integrity Policy. (2007). Retrieved from https://myq.quinnipiac.edu/Academics/Academic%20Integrity/Document%20Library/Academic%20Integrity%20Policy.pdf
Take careful notes. Make sure you mark the citation information for all the items you use in your notes. Careless note-taking can lead to unintentional plagiarism.
Put quotation marks around words that are taken from someone else or highlight them in your notes so that you remember that they are exact quotes.
When creating a paraphrase, read the text that you would like to reference then put it aside and without looking rewrite the text. This will help you from copying exact wording or sentences from the original.
Create a working bibliography so that you have the full citation that corresponds with each reference.