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| Citing Your Sources |
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Plagiarism is presenting the words or ideas of someone else as your own without proper acknowledgment of the source. |
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| It is plagiarism when you: |
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| use the words or ideas of another person without citing that person |
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| When you work on a research paper you will probably find supporting material for your paper from works by others. It's okay to use the ideas of other people, but you do need to credit them correctly. |
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| When you quote people—or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, Web pages, or other information sources you must acknowledge the original author by providing a citation for the source. |
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| buy or use a term paper written by someone else |
| paraphrase a person's words without citing that person |
| cut & paste passages, and insert them into your paper without citing a source |
