This policy was developed using information from these resources. Casa Loma College students, faculty, and staff are urged to consult these resources and to check with the college librarian in the case of further questions.
Plagiarism is the use, deliberately or accidentally, of another's work to create a work of your own for academic or monetary credit.
When you do not properly give credit for other people's work, whether it is text, photos, graphics, music or any other medium, you have committed plagiarism.
In the commercial work, plagiarism can be punished by fines or imprisonment. In the academic world, it is punished through issuing a failing grade for an assignment or a course or by expulsion from the school.
Copyright is tied to plagiarism because copyright law controls how to legally use another person's work and whether or not you may profit from the use of that work.
Citation is the formal, legal reference to the works of a person so that any who reads or view the new work can identify the referenced work(s). The American Psychological Association (APA) style manual is used at Casa Loma College for citation format.