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Any assignment you submit (essays, papers, lab assignments) must be your own work. Representing someone else's work as your own is plagiarism.
It is a serious offense to take credit for an assignment you did not write yourself. If you do, you may be suspended or expelled.
Remember: only submit assignments that you wrote yourself!
Graphic by Sara LeBlanc, University of Waterloo. Text adapted from University of Waterloo Library (CC-BY-NC).
To avoid committing plagiarism, you must acknowledge the source of any information included in your assignment.
Your instructor needs to know which parts of your assignment are your original thoughts and ideas, and which parts of your assignment are someone else's ideas. It is a good idea to use someone else's thoughts to support your assignment, but you must give credit to that person. In college, we give credit using citation.
Want to learn more about citation? Check out our Citation Guides.
Remember: you need to credit your source using citation when you use any resources from other people!
Graphic by Sara LeBlanc, University of Waterloo. Text adapted from University of Waterloo Library (CC-BY-NC).
You must acknowledge the source of any information included in your assignment.
You need to cite when you use someone else's exact words (quotation) and when you use some else's ideas (paraphrase).
Your instructor needs to know which parts of your assignment are your original thoughts and ideas, and which parts of your assignment are someone else's ideas. It is a good idea to use someone else's thoughts to support your assignment, but you must give credit to that person. In school, we give credit using citation.
Want to learn more about citation? Check out our Citation Guides.
Remember: you need to credit your source using citation when you use any ideas from other people!
Graphic by Sara LeBlanc, University of Waterloo. Text adapted from University of Waterloo Library (CC-BY-NC).
Ask your instructor before submitting an assignment that you previously submitted for a different purpose.
Reusing a paper is not always wrong, but it is important to avoid misleading the instructor.
Remember: you need to ask your instructor for permission before reusing your own paper!
Graphic by Sara LeBlanc, University of Waterloo. Text adapted from University of Waterloo Library (CC-BY-NC).
