Plagiarism is using someone else's words or ideas and claiming them as your own, either intentionally or unintentionally. You are committing plagiarism by:

       • Buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper to copy           from.
        • Hiring someone to write your paper for you.
        • Copying from another source without citing them.
        • Using a source too closely when paraphrasing.
        • Building on someone else's ideas without            citation.

For more information on what exactly constitutes plagiarism, visit UCLA’s Road to Resarch or Plagiarism.org.

Many LTCC instructors use a plagiarism prevention product called Turnitin.com to verify that student papers, tests and quizzes are authentic works.
For more information, visit Turnitin.com.