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Academic Honesty and Avoiding Plagiarism

Introduction

two students in the stacks

Academic honesty is critical to your success as a student here at Montgomery County Community College, and afterward in your academic and professional careers.

In this tutorial we hope to show you how to avoid intentional and unintentional plagiarism in your coursework and research, and also how to respect the academic integrity policies of Montco, so you can avoid the consequences of academic dishonesty.

Attribution = Credit where credit is due

This tutorial is adapted from "Academic Integrity Tutorial for Undergraduates" by DiMenna-Nyselius Library, Fairfield University, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Many thanks!

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