Plagiarism

With DACC’s commitment to academic excellence, the College follows strict rules against plagiarism. 

Plagiarism is the representation of another person’s work, words, thoughts, or ideas, as one’s own. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, copying material and using ideas from an article, book, unpublished paper, or the Internet without proper documentation of references or without properly enclosing quoted material in quotation marks.  Materials protected under plagiarism rules also include statistics, computer programs, artwork, theories, and photographs. Plagiarism also includes sentences that follow an original source too closely, often created by simply substituting synonyms for another person’s words.   Plagiarism is a violation of the DACC Student Code of Conduct. For additional help understanding plagiarism, see the DACC Library’s guide to Plagiarism at https://dacc.libguides.com/plagiarism.

Information on how to properly cite material can be found in the DACC Writing Center (Clock Tower, Room 116), in the DACC Library (Clock Tower), in DACC’s ENGL 102 Rhetoric & Composition II course, and online at the Purdue University’s OWL (Online Writing Lab) at https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/. DACC provides access to an online citation tool, Noodletools. See the DACC Library’s guide at https://dacc.libguides.com/noodletools.