Avoiding Plagiarism

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you:

• paraphrase or directly quote from someone's actual spoken or written words
• use another person's ideas, opinions, or theories in an assignment or essay
• make use of pieces of information, such as statistics, graphs, drawings, that are not common knowledge.

You can avoid unintentional plagiarism by:

• using quotation marks around everything that comes directly from a text or article
• summarising ideas and arguments in your own words - don't just change or rearrange a few random words
• correct paraphrasing and acknowledging of original ideas
• checking your summary against the original text
• correctly referencing all sources used.

Avoid collusion by:

• working on separate, unshared documents if you're studying with classmates
• writing and proofreading your own work instead of asking classmates to read it
• seeking assignment help from tutors and lecturers instead of classmates
• never lending you work to another student.

For more information see the Library's Avoiding Plagiarism "How-to Guide".

Congratulations! You have completed Module 5, the last module of the Law Online Tutorial.