Research – Academic Integrity, Plagiarism,
and Citing Sources

Plagiarism

The Student Handbook includes the following statement:

“academic dishonesty or plagiarism or willful falsification of scientific educational data that is represented as scientific or scholarly research. One way to avoid committing the offense is to always cite your sources in your work.”

Citing Sources

There are several websites that provide assistance to writers about plagiarism, proper citation, and formatting using various style manuals. These are a few of the better sites:

Diana Hacker’s resource documents:

The link below will take you to a webpage that will provide the appropriate style manual for various disciplines:

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/home.html

It also includes sample papers and reference lists written in the various style manuals.

In addition to style manual advice, the Purdue University Writing Lab has advice on grammar and writing styles as well:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

The Duke University Library has an easy to use guide for formatting citations within the paper and for creating the list of references:

http://library.duke.edu/research/citing/

Another useful website that will take the publishing information you have and put is into the appropriate style manual is Son of Citation Machine:

http://citationmachine.net/

The Writing Center

The John A. Logan College English Department staffs a Writing Center called The Write Place to assist students in writing papers. Its hours vary each semester. Its website is:

http://www.jalc.edu/departmentpages/english/writeplace.php