Answered By: Colleen Lougen
Last Updated: Dec 11, 2020     Views: 117

According to the Oxford English Dictionary plagiarism is "the action or practice of taking someone else's work, idea, etc and passing it off as one's own." 

Students are often confused about when, what and how to cite their sources to avoid plagiarism. 

For more information what what constitutes plagiarism and when you need to give credit, please refer to the listed web pages.

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