In a nutshell, plagiarism is passing off someone else’s work as your own. More specifically, it involves using someone else’s work – their words, thoughts, ideas, data, or designs – and failing to give credit to your source.

In other words, if you are not citing your sources, you are plagiarizing those sources! And yes, this includes information you got from generative AI programs such as ChatGPT.

For more information on plagiarism and how to avoid it, please see our Plagiarism research guide.