Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is when you use other people’s ideas and words and you don’t give credit to that source of information. If you don’t acknowledge another person’s ideas, opinions, facts. Statistics, quotations or paraphrasing, that is also considered plagiarism.

How to avoid plagiarism

Here are some ways to avoid plagiarism: if you put another person’s information into your own words and credit the source, that won’t be considered plagiarism. If you put quotation marks in a sentence that shows the reader that the sentences are taken right from the source. Another way to avoid plagiarism is by citing – that is when you put a number at the end of a sentence and when you put the same number at the bottom of the page which tells you the number with the source that you got it from.

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is when you take a source, take the information of the source and put it in your own words. However, if you only change a few words or phrases, or change the order of the sentences, that will usually be considered plagiarism.