PLAGIARIZED WORK WILL NOT RECEIVE CREDIT!
Plagiarism is presenting someone else's ideas as your own without giving credit to the source.
Plagiarism can occur in a number of ways.
In word for word plagiarism, a researcher repeats the exact words of a source without giving necessary credit.
In paraphrase plagiarism, a researcher says basically the same thing as an original source with just a few words changed.
In spot plagiarism, a researcher uses only a source's key words or phrases as his/her own without giving credit.
You owe it to your sources, your readers, and yourself to give credit for the ideas you use, unless the ideas are widely accepted as common knowledge.
Information is common knowledge if most people already know it, or if it can be found in nearly any basic reference book on the subject. ex. The fact that there are 365 days in the year is common knowledge; the fact that it rained 210 days in Seattle during 1990 is not.
(Sebrank, Mayer, and Kemper 179)
