Plagiarisim

What is Plagiarism?

-By: Barbie

This information is from the I.U. code of student rights, responsibilities, and conduct; and YouTube: PaulRobsen library.

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is using other people’s words and ideas without acknowledging the source of information properly. It is also plagiarism if you write a paper for a class and the next year you have to write a paper on the same topic and you use the paper from the previous year. An example of plagiarism that someone can do without realizing: Let’s say that I go to www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Lady_Gaga and copy and paste a paragraph or a few sentences onto my report without clearly saying where I got that information. That is plagiarism.

How do you avoid plagiarism? To avoid plagiarizing give credit whenever you use someone opinion, idea, or theory; whenever you use any facts, statistics, or drawings that are not "common knowledge", and quotations from another person’s written words. To avoid plagiarizing you can also paraphrase.

What is paraphrasing? Paraphrasing is where you use someone’s ideas or theory but you write them in your own words and at your level. Because you are using someone’s idea you still need to give credit though. From my own experience paraphrasing is super useful to learn how to do and once you know how to do it is much easier to write when you are using a source of information!