Plagiarism

Plagiarism is, simply put, using someone else's words as your own. The ideas are fair game and you can talk about them in your paper, but you must [|cite] the source. For example, if Nick reads an article and copies a sentence (or an entire paragraph or more) out of the article word for word and puts it into his paper, he would be plagiarizing. He doesn't mention where he got the information from, either in his paper or in his works cited or bibliography page. In college, this can get you expelled. It is a form of stealing. So what can you do instead of plagiarizing? You can put the idea into your own words and mention the author of the original work. Or, you can quote the work and then cite it.

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