ENGL000: Pre-College English

You have been practicing using quotation, paraphrase, and summary to incorporate others' ideas into your own writing. In many types of academic writing, it is important to use facts and ideas from outside sources to support your own analysis and conclusions. Whenever you introduce an idea from an outside source, it is important to attribute that idea to that source. Otherwise, you are taking credit for someone else's work. This is called plagiarism.

Different writing communities may have somewhat different norms when it comes to avoiding plagiarism. Watch this short video for an introduction to how colleges and universities in the United States define plagiarism and how students can avoid plagiarizing in their own writing.