Plagiarism and citing flow chart
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This document provides a flowchart to help determine if content needs to be cited to avoid plagiarism. It advises that all ideas, images, and facts from other sources require citation, whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased. Commonly known facts may not need citation, but anything requiring lookup does. If content is from another source, it must be properly quoted or paraphrased and cited.
Plagiarism and citing flow chart
- 1. Plagiarism Prevention NEVER CUT & PASTE EVERYTHING NEEDS A CITATION Start Here: Is it my own idea, image, and in my own words? YES Is it commonly known facts or information? NO Is it someone else’s idea or image? YES NO YES Is it a fact(s) or other information that I had to look up? NO YES Is it in my own words? YES NO Is it paraphrased? NO NO YES PLAGIARIZED: Review and either paraphrase, quote or add citation. NO Is it a quote? YES Is there a citation? NO YES Super!! No plagiarism! Created by: Erin Gabrielson, Indiana University SLIS student, modified by Steve Hardin, Reference/Instruction Librarian, Indiana State University 2006 library.indstate.edu Adapted by Dianna Weber, Reynolds Middle School Librarian, Prosper ISD 2013