Avoiding Plagiarism
Welcome!
Learning to write well at university can be challenging. One important task is learning how to include others' ideas and words in your writing.
This tutorial and quiz have been developed to help you learn how to do so while avoiding plagiarism.
Avoiding plagiarism is an essential step in the process of learning to write academically.
The purpose of this tutorial is:
- to identify practices that are regarded as cheating
- to introduce you to some of the conventions of academic writing in Australian universities
If you understand the conventions of academic writing and follow them in your writing, you can avoid plagiarism.
Navigation
You can use the menu bar on the left to take you to some pages that give general information about how to avoid plagiarism. You can also work through some specfic examples.
To go to a specfic tutorial, please click on one of the categories below:
- Quoting
- Paraphrasing
- Summarising
- Referencing
- Recognising common knowledge
- Tables and figures
- Academic honesty
This tutorial uses extracts from various publications. These are referenced here.