Plagiarism is committed when statistics, facts or theories are borrowed from another work and no citation is used to give credit to the person or group who collected the statistics or facts or developed the theories (Indiana University 2014).
Plagiarism example:
Most children who are aggressive in school tend to watch aggressive television. In fact, 22% of the children in one study displayed violence directly after a violent cartoon.
Correct example:
Most children who are aggressive in school tend to watch aggressive television. In fact, 22% of the children in one study displayed violence directly after a violent cartoon (Pearson, Klenke and Howard 2009).
