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.