Academic Honesty and Intellectual Ownership

This document was originally prepared in May 1996 by Inger Brody, Ann Ekes, and Jeanette DiScala as part of the University of Puget Sound's Academic Standards Committee, Subcommittee on Academic Honesty. Intended as a teaching guide, it introduces students to the issues of intellectual ownership and accepted forms of citation. Included are sample published pages, along with a range of ways in which students might use such passages in their papers. Please direct questions about this page to Lori Ricigliano.

Table of Contents

Basic Guidelines for Academic Honesty in Writing Papers

• Intellectual Ownership
• Recognizing Plagiarism
• The Standard of Originality
• The Standard of Common Knowledge
• Avoiding Plagiarism

Exercises for Citing Sources

• Exercise 1 (Beginning)
• Exercise 2 (Intermediate)
• Exercise 3 (Intermediate)
• Exercise 4 (Advanced)

Additional Exercises

• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2

Systems of Documentation