Overview for Understanding Plagiarism 

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Welcome to Understanding Plagiarism!

In this module, you will learn about how you can join the scholarly conversation without engaging in accidental or intentional plagiarism. Avoiding plagiarism is a mark of high-quality learners, researchers, and writers.

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this module, you will be able to

  • identify cases of plagiarism;
  • learn how to avoid plagiarism in your work; and
  • properly integrate sources into your work through direct quotation, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

Items Due for This Module

  • Understanding Plagiarism Quiz

This work is adapted from "Introduction to Plagiarism (with APA Citation)" by UNR Libraries, used under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. This work is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International by Miramar College Library.