The use of someone else's words or ideas without proper acknowledgment is called plagiarism. Plagiarism at Bentley is punishable by failure and, in extreme cases, by expulsion .
Plagiarism is a serious intellectual crime.
Perhaps you have had teachers who accepted written work copied without attribution from magazines, books, or encyclopedias. This will not be the case at Bentley College. In order to avoid plagiarism, you must carefully distinguish your own ideas and words from the ideas and words of others. You must therefore learn how to make proper attributions when you use anyone's ideas or words. Both quotation marks and reference are necessary, even for short quotations.