Plagiarism

Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of someone else as your own without proper acknowledgment of the source. 

If you do not credit the author, you are committing plagiarism.

When you are conducting research you will probably find supporting material from works written by others in books, articles, etc.. It is okay to use the ideas of other people, but you do need to correctly credit the source.

When you quote people -- or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or from Internet sites -- you must acknowledge the original author. It is plagiarism when you:

  1. buy or use a term paper written by someone else.
  2. cut and paste passages from the Internet, a book, or an article and insert them into your paper without citing them.
  3. use the words or ideas of another person without citing them.
  4. paraphrase that person's words without citing them.
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