Plagiarism

Plagiarism

(These guidelines are from the IU Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct; all students are required to follow them.)

Plagiarism is when someone uses information, graphics, quotes and more from someone else without giving credit to the original writer . It is when you take someone's idea and pretend it is your own.

To avoid plagiarism there are a few strategies you can take on. Some of these are: always put in quotation anything coming from the text, put in brackets the name of the writer of all quotes coming directly from a text or a person's oral statement or lecture. Also reread the text and rewrite the idea in your own words. Check your paraphrases and compare it to the original text, to make sure the idea is the same but not the manner you wrote it.

Paraphrasing is when you use someone's idea but rephrase it in your own words. This is an important skill that will be of great use throughout your academic experience. Even though you rearranged the words, you still ought to acknowledge and give credit to the source of your information.- Salome