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Strategies for Success: Plagiarism & Citing Sources

A research guide for STRT 1000, designed to be delivered during a synchronous Zoom instruction session with a librarian

Academic Integrity @ LCCC

LCCC Procedure 3.16P, Student Discipline Adjudication, defines Academic Integrity and outlines institutional consequences for violations.  In addition, your teacher may have course-specific examples of and consequences for academic integrity violations.  Refer to your course syllabus for more information and don't be afraid to have a conversation with your instructor if you are uncertain or confused!

Why Citations? (in class activities)

Why and when do we use citations in academic writing? What makes something plagiarism?

• Using Other People's Ideas

4 min video from CSU Libraries on paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting vs. plagiarism

Additional Resources

Some additional resources you might want to explore on your own:

• APA Citation Style, 7th edition

8 minute video from CSU libraries longer video with more details about APA style; even though they do go into details about punctuation, capitalization, etc, it’s about as unboring as a video on this topic can be and it’s worth a watch for any student who need more details on how to do APA