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Learning Resources for Medicine: Plagiarism

This guide will lead you to resources that help your study and research in the field of Medicine. There are also a range of learning tools that will allow you to develop your research and study skills.

What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is using someone else's words, ideas or theories and claiming them as one's own.

To avoid plagiarism you must always give credit for information you have taken from someone else.

You must give credit whenever you use things like:

  • charts, graphs, drawings, diagrams, music, art
  • words, phrases, quotations
  • ideas, theories, or opinions

Plagiarism Tutorial