Citing your sources is important for a variety of reasons, including:
The easiest way to prevent plagiarism is by correctly noting your sources during research and citing your sources in your writing and presentations.
According to the ERAU Student Handbook (2017-2018),
Students may not plagiarize as it is an act of academic dishonesty and is defined as taking the ideas, writings, and/or words of another and representing them as one’s own. Two common forms of plagiarism involve the use of written or oral work of another person without giving proper acknowledgment and the use of the work of another person as one’s own. Over-sharing, which is copying numerical solutions, code, or lab experiments outside of collaborative assignments, is also considered plagiarism (p. 25 - 26).