Avoiding Plagiarism
To avoid plagiarism, a student must give credit whenever he or she uses:
- Another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
- Any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, any pieces of information that are not common knowledge;
- Quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or
- Paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.
Direct quotations should be put in “inverted commas” and referenced. Paraphrased or edited versions should be acknowledged and referenced.