Please refer to your course syllabus/assignment sheet for instructions on what citation style to use. Below are links to resources for MLA Style. See the Citation Styles Guide for additional resources and other citation styles.
Here you will find a list of some of the MLA resources that are available online.
Plagiarism is defined in the Texas A&M University-San Antonio's Student Handbook (November 2017) as:
"Plagiarism - The act of passing off some other person’s ideas, words, or work as one’s own. Examples include, but are not limited to, (1) The use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without acknowledgement, documentation or citation; (2) The unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the selling of term papers or other academic materials."
These websites below offer ways to better understand plagiarism and how to avoid it: