“Copying someone else's work or using someone else's thoughts without giving that person credit. To avoid plagiarism, simply cite the person's work that you are quoting, paraphrasing, or basing your thoughts upon." -from writingcommons.org
BOTTOM LINE: If they're not your WORDS or IDEAS, you have to state whose they are by citing your sources.
If your paper has. . . | Then it's . . . |
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PLAGIARIZED! |
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PLAGIARIZED! |
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PLAGIARIZED! |
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PLAGIARIZED! |
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PLAGIARIZED! |
Learn how to correctly integrate sources into you paper with these three techniques:
Quoting: an exact excerpt credited to the author set off with quotation marks. Must include a source citation.
Summarizing: putting the main idea of the information into your own words, citing the original source. A summary is shorter than the original, but usually gives a bigger view of the whole idea.
For more information, check out the OWL at Purdue.
Watch this for a good overview of the different types of plagiarism.
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