HOW CAN YOU AVOID PLAGIARISM?

CITE any and all sources used - this appears as a Works Cited page at the end of a paper, project, or website. Or, you may cite the source directly after the information you found from it (ex: putting a website address directly under an image you found on that site and used in your paper, presentation, etc)

USE proper PARENTHETICAL NOTATION when specifically quoting text or sharing ideas from that text.

ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ARE CONSIDERED PLAGIARISM:

• turning in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit to the author
• failing to put words taken directly out of a book or off the internet in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing some words in a sentence but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• the majority of your work is just a reiteration (restatement) of someone else's work.

Information above is adapted from the website Plagiarism.org. http://www.plagiarism.org/plagiarism-101/what-is-plagiarism/

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