What Every Student Should Know About Avoiding Plagiarism

Students will take plagiarism seriously and understand its consequences with this timely and effective supplement. Here, source usage methods — summary, paraphrase and quotation — are explained, with examples. The most common types of plagiarism are discussed, from simple mistakes such as forgetting to use quotation marks when using someone else's exact words, or failing to acknowledge another's thoughts and ideas, to wholesale fraudulence, such as purchasing student papers from online site...