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• "Using someone else's work in your assignment without appropriate acknowledgement."
• "Making slight variations in the language and then failing to give credit to the source."  (from Scholastic Dishonesty at http://www.uta.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/academic_integrity.php, UT Arlington Student Judicial Affairs

Academic Integrity and Honesty, UT Arlington Student Judicial Affairs

To appropriately acknowledge someone else's work. Cite someone else's:

• drawings
• facts
• graphs
• ideas
• opinions
• paraphrase of spoken word
• paraphrase of written word
• something in your paper that is not "common knowledge."
• spoken word
• statistics
• theories
• written word

Sites with examples of when to cite:

• Plagiarism. What it is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
• Avoiding Plagiarism
• Plagiarism in Colleges in USA
• Plagiarism

• If you are including something in your paper that is considered "common knowledge."   "Common knowledge" is knowledge that is know by the general public, i.e. Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941.  If you are unsure if something is common knowledge, then you should cite your source. 
• If you have an original idea of your own.

"Information which fully identifies a publication; a complete citation usually includes author, title, name of journal (if the citation is to an article) or publisher (if to a book), and date. Often pages, volumes and other information will be included in a citation." (from http://library.uta.edu//howTo/libraryTerms.jsp )

Examples:

Author's name. Title of Book. Publication information
Huxley, Aldous.  Brave New World. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. (MLA style)

Author's name. "Title of the article." Publication information
White, Sabina, and Andrew Winzelberg. "Laughter and Stress." Humor 5 (1992): 343-55. (MLA Style)

The format that a citation should take in a bibliography will depend on which style is appropriate for your field of study.  The major style manuals used at UT Arlington are.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (MLA)
Example: Huxley, Aldous.  Brave New World. New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1946.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA)
Example: Huxley, Aldous. (1946).  Brave New World. New York:  Harper & Brothers.

A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Turabian)
Example: Huxley, Aldous.  Brave New World. New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1946.

 How To Guides: Citing Sources
 Plagiarism site at http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism