Plagiarism
- Plagiarism is intellectual theft. That means you have taken a thought, idea, writing, image, or other form of intellectual property belonging to another and passed it off as your own.
- Plagiarism, like other types of stealing, carries serious consequences.
- Make sure to give credit to all of the resources you used to create ideas and images for your research project.
Citation Tools
To avoid plagiarism, you will need to give credit to all of the resources that you used in your research. Videos, images, and ideas that belong to others need to be acknowledged in a work cited page. Below you will find tools and instructions on how to properly present this information. Purdue Owl will show you the way each citation should be written, and Citation Machine will allow you to plug in the resource information then create the citation for you. Most teachers at AES will ask that you use MLA style, but check to make sure.