Resources for Students

SCSU Student Handbook
Academic Honesty pg. 58

Buley Library Information Literacy Instruction Services Plagiarism can result when you have minimal knowledge of library resources and research techniques. Information literacy competency provides the skills to know when information is needed, locate information effectively and efficiently, evaluate information critically, and to use information sources responsibly. For individualized instruction sessions or research consultations on how to avoid plagiarism contact a subject specialist librarian within your major. Additional information may be accessed through the following links:

Plagiarism in Colleges in USA by Ronald B. Standler. Includes Law of Plagiarism, copyright law, trademark law, fraud, state statues about sale of term papers, cases in the USA involving plagiarism in colleges and much more.
http://wbs2.com/plag.htm

Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It from Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University, Bloomington. Includes:
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewts/wts/plagiarism.html

I'm writing my first university paper. What do I need to know? (not just for first papers) from Writing Support, University of Toronto.
http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/first.html

Exercise on Citation and Paraphrase by Judy Hunter, Grinnell College.
http://web.grinnell.edu/writinglab/CitationGuides/Indivex.html

Guidelines for Proper Attribution from Northwestern University.
http://www.northwestern.edu/uacc/plagiar.html

The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing: "a practical, award-winning online writing guide for college students" from Professor Michael Harvey, Department of Business Management, Washington College.
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing from OWL (Online Writing Lab), a project of the Purdue University Writing Lab.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html

Writing with Sources: A Guide for Harvard Students by Gordon Harvey, Expository Writing Program.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Eexpos/sources/

Additional Writing Guides
http://library.easternct.edu/library1/plagiarism/writing.htm

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