APA Formatting

Plagiarism is an ongoing struggle in academic settings, with the increase use of the Internet and the over abundance of resources available to students, plagiarism has become a lot easier to commit. Students need to be aware of what plagiarism is, and how to recognize it, but they also need to know how to prevent it and how easy it is to avoid. 

According to the Council of Writing Program Administrators,

"In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source".

Wiregrass Georgia Technical College's definition of plagiarism according to the Student Handbook:

4. Plagiarism

• Submitting another’s published or unpublished work in whole, in part or in paraphrase, as one’s own without fully and properly crediting the author with footnotes, quotation marks, citations, or bibliographical reference.
• Submitting as one’s own original work, material obtained from an individual or agency without reference to the person or agency as the source of the material.
• Submitting as one’s own original work material that has been produced through unacknowledged collaboration with others without release in writing from collaborators.