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Quick Resources: Citing your sources

Video: 5 Tips for Using Generative AI (Ethically!) for School

Avoiding Plagiarism

UNM Plagiarism Policy: http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/handouts/somplagiarism.pdf 


What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is when you:

  • Copy from published sources without adequate documentation
  • Cut and paste (words or images) from a browser or .pdf and don’t give credit
  • Change every 5th word and don’t give credit
  • Change pronouns (he/she/they) and don’t give credit
  • Purchase and submit pre-written papers
  • Use work completed for another class
  • Let someone else write your paper

 

How to avoid plagiarizing

This guidance can be straightforward to understand, but harder to practice: 

  • Always cite your sources, both in the text of the document and in the references list
  • Learn how to quote and paraphrase effectively
  • Use published sources
  • Use a citation manager like Zotero or Mendeley
  • Give yourself enough time to cite correctly
  • Check your work using iThenticate -- free for UNM grad students

Take Care with Paraphrasing

Original Source

Differentiation as an instructional approach promotes a balance between a student's style and a student's ability. Differentiated instruction provides the student with options for processing and internalizing the content, and for constructing new learning in order to progress academically.

 

Plagiarized

Differentiation is a way to encourage equality between the approach and talent of the student (Thompson, 2009). This type of instruction gives students different ways to deal with and grasp information, and for establishing new learning to move on in education (Thompson, 2009).

 

Not Plagiarized

Teachers use differentiated instruction to help students learn, allowing the teacher to cater lessons to the way each student learns and each student's skill (Thompson, 2009).

 

Example from Walden University Writing Center. Want more? Watch their video on the paraphrasing process