Plagiarism: What is it and how to avoid it

Plagiarism is using other people`s ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

To avoid plagiarism you must give credit when ever you use another person`s spoken or written words you can use quotation marks on any words, sentences or paragraphs. Any facts, statics, graphs, drawings- any pieces of information, that are not common knowledge.

Paraphrasing is when the writer records the information in the original passage accurately. The writer also gives the credit for the ideas in this passage.