NARRATOR: If you use another person's words, concepts, results, conclusions, images, sound, or videos, and pass them off as your own, then you are plagiarizing. There are many forms of plagiarism. 

The most obvious is when you copy or paraphrase any part of a document without acknowledging the source. This includes copying and pasting, photocopying, or even memorizing. Submitting an assignment which you have copied or bought from someone else is also plagiarism. And never allow another person to submit your work as his or her own. 

Let's say you have an assignment for individual submission, not a group assignment. If you decide to work together with another student, and if you then both hand in work which is similar in content and language, then this is also considered student misconduct. 

Remember, plagiarism can be accidental, the result of poor note taking, not keeping enough details of the source. It can be as simple as referencing incorrectly or forgetting to use quotation marks. However, this is still plagiarism. 

Plagiarism is a breach of academic integrity, and UTS actively checks for plagiarism. For example, UTS students now submit assignments using Turnitin. UTS treats any form of plagiarism very seriously. It can mean failing an assessment task, or failing a subject, or being suspended or excluded from the university. These are serious consequences, but don't worry. Avoiding plagiarism is easy. Check out our next video to see how.