Plagiarism: What it is and how to avoid it!

The information in this summary is from the IU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct.

“What is plagiarism?” you might ask yourself. Plagiarism is when you take someone else’s idea and say it’s your own. There are many ways of doing plagiarism, like if you do not put quotes on a saying that a person wrote, not showing the website you got your information from, taking a paper you did for another class and use that for your assignment, and paraphrasing!

Paraphrasing is when you take someone’s paragraph and change it in your own words but you take their idea and say that you wrote it. That’s paraphrasing!

How to avoid doing plagiarism? Just don’t plagiarise! Just don’t take other peoples ideas, don’t paraphrase anybody’s paragraph, list all your sources and don’t copy a paper that you did for another class!