Academic integrity
Academic integrity involves the acknowledgement of your own and other peoples’ written work, images, audio files, or their ideas. The only content which you do not need acknowledge is common knowledge.
Plagiarism
When you use someone else's ideas or words in your writing without acknowledging (referencing) where they came from, this behaviour could be classified as plagiarising or academic dishonesty.
Work can be plagiarised from many sources: books, articles, websites, course notes, other students’ assignments, even your own earlier assignments.
Plagiarism can occur by mistake if you are not careful. Always write down the title and author of a work when you take notes from it.