Academic Integrity Course

Plagiarism means, intentionally or unintentionally, presenting the work, ideas, or expression of ideas of another as one's own.

Examples of plagiarism include:

​presenting someone's published work as your own, in part or in full, without proper citations or without referencing the original source. This is one of the reasons why it is important to cite your sources!

Sources of intentional or unintentional plagiarism and presenting work "other than one's own" may include:

• websites found through search engines like Google--cite your sources!
• articles found through the library databases--cite your sources!
• contributions to your work by people you know including friends, parents, siblings, partners, tutors
• students in similar programs at other schools
• commercial term paper companies (see "What is contract cheating")

What can you do?

• Cite your sources!--You have the responsibility to appropriately cite any part of you work that is not your own
• You have a responsibility to ensure that the work you submit for evaluation is your own
• You have the responsibility to seek help if you need help with citation to avoid plagiarism

If you need help with citing resources or understanding plagiarism view the academic integrity supports page:

Source credit: State Fans Nation

Self-plagiarism? Can I actually plagiarize my own work? If I wrote it, how can it be plagiarized?  

Using an old essay, presentation or other academic work you created, and resubmitting it or repurposing it for a different academic assessment, is a violation of academic integrity.

Unauthorised resubmission of academic work is not permitted

This is also sometimes referred to as "self-plagiarism".

Unauthorised resubmission of work, or self-plagiarism, is submitting work for evaluation or credit that has already been awarded credit in another Camosun course or in a course at another institution. Even if the work is yours, whether you are using the whole work or a part of it, if you want to submit it again you must ask your instructor for approval. 

What can you do?

Obtain permission from your instructor before submitting previously evaluated work.