Often plagiarism is unintentional, resulting from a lack of understanding of how to honestly and accurately give credit to the sources you use.

Plagiarism = using someone else's ideas, words, photos, music, and so forth without giving them credit for creating.

Citations =  how we give credit to someone for creating ideas, words, and the like in our own work.

Whenever you summarize, paraphrase, or quote someone else's work without acknowledging the source, you have fallen into plagiarism. Many times students unintentionally plagiarize. Please see the tabs on Common Misunderstandings about Plagiarism and Tips to Avoid Plagiarism to help you figure this out.

SHSST students and faculty have access to this online tool. All students and faculty have been registered with the vendor. Students may use it to improve their draft before submitting it for a class by submitting a paper for review. Instructions are here.

From the website: "We provide a full kit for educational institutions. Our plagiarism checker finds grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors in papers to help students improve their writing. ... The tool recognizes title pages, citations, and references in your essays without considering them a plagiarism. It highlights duplications, providing the original sources for all flagged matches. ... PlagiarismCheck.org doesn't save your writings in its database."