Avoiding Plagiarism

When citing a source you have to follow very specific rules.

There are many different citation styles; the two most common are:

APA Citation Styles

MLA Citation Styles

Your professor should tell you what citation style you have to use in your paper.

Plagiarism means stealing intellectual property.

Plagiarism is a very complicated topic. The rules of plagiarism are not universal; different cultures have different views on what is and what is not plagiarism.

Taking ideas from an author's work without citing the name of that author (not giving credit to that author), frankly speaking, is stealing.

In simple words, you commit plagiarism when you copy sentences or facts from another author's work, download music or video from the Internet, use someone's artwork or change it without citing the name of the original author.

Even if you rewrite sentences or a paragraph without citing the original source, you commit plagiarism! You are stealing the idea!

When a person creates a new poem, story or song, that creation is that person's property. If you use it in your paper, even partially, you have to give credit to the original author/source of the work, otherwise you commit plagiarism.

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