Definitions:  DePaul University’s Academic Integrity Policy recognizes the following types of Academic Integrity Violations.  Please click on a violation in order to review its definition.

• Cheating
• Plagiarism
• Fabrication, Falsification or Sabotage of Research Data
• Destruction or Misuse of the University's Academic Resources
• Alteration or Falsification of Academic Records
• Academic Misconduct
• Complicity

Definitions at other universities: To get a more complete picture of plagiarism, one of the most common violations, you may wish to review the definitions at other universities: 

• Penn State University
• Georgetown University
• Rutgers University (This site is a video demonstration)
• Trinity College
• University of Houston
• Queens University (CAN)

Examples: Examples of plagiarism:

• Princeton University
• Georgetown University
• Kansas State University

You are not expected to have to figure this out on your own!  Manuals and other resources are available.  Please access the materials below as you prepare your coursework or if a colleague asks you for assistance with her or his work. 

Manuals

• Manual on Sourcing (Dartmouth College)
• How to footnote (Hamilton College)
• Quoting, Paraphrasing & Summarizing (Purdue University)
• How to Take Notes – Avoiding Plagiarism (Univ. Northern British Columbia)
• Support For Questions about Writing (DePaul’s Writing Center)
• Research and Documentation Online - Online Research Databases

Tip Sheets

• Tips on Avoiding Violations
• Princeton
• University of Toronto
• Northwestern University
• Purdue
• Tips from Turn-it-In

• Citing electronic references
• The Citation Machine (an interactive web tool)
• Compendium of additional styles (Concordia University Library) and DePaul’s Compendium

Specific Style Sources:

• APA reference style  (often, though not exclusively, used in psychology and the social sciences)
• MLA reference style (often, though not exclusively, used in English and the humanities)
• Turabian Citation style (often, though not exclusively, used in the natural and social sciences)
• Chicago Manual of Style (often, though not exclusively, used in history, law and some humanities)
• AMA Manual of Style (often, though not exclusively, used in business)
• CSE Style (often, though not exclusively, used in biology and other sciences)

• The University of Indiana  
• Georgetown University
• University of Toronto
• Duke University
• University of Hong Kong (This is a more involved exercise, rather than a multiple choice process)
• McMaster University
• University of Aberdeen (UK)
• Simon Fraser University (CAN)