These guidelines are from IU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct; all students are required to follow them. Other information is from a youtube video created by Paulrobsenlibrary.
What is plagiarism? When plagiarism first comes to mind you probably think it is just stealing other peoples ideas. Little do you know, there is a lot more rules then that. Plagiarism is taking someone else's idea or expression and using it as your own, buying a parer online, using your own paper that you have already used before. And a big one, not citing where you got your information.
Even if you know what plagiarism is, it’s still hard to avoid. Here are some ways that you can avoid plagiarizing. Give credit whenever you use a fact, theory, statistic, graph..... Put everything you use directly from a text in quotations. Check your paraphrase against the original text to be sure you haven't used the same phrase or word, and that the information is accurate.
Paraphrasing is very commonly used incorporating sources into you essay or piece of writing. A paraphrase is when you use someone else's idea, but using your own words. Although you are using your own words you still must cite you resource.
-Isobel :)
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