Plagiarism

When you write a paper, you have to use your own words or else give credit to the people whose words you're using.  If you don't, that is plagiarizing.  That goes for pictures, too.

"Plagiarism is using another person's words or ideas without giving credit to the other person. When you use someone else's words, you must put quotation marks around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the source in a citation. Even if you revise or paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you still must give the author credit in a note. Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing is very much like lying."

And I got that whole paragraph from Harris, Robert, "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers," April 8, 2001, Accessed April 10, 2001, http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm (Which is why I put the whole section in quotations).

What is plagiarism?

• MLA: A Statement on Plagiarism at http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml

How students can avoid plagiarism:

• Avoiding Plagiarism at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/print/research/r_plagiar.html